On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:13:01AM +0000, John Klos wrote: > boobookitty: {10} tar -c mail > tar: File is too long for ustar mail/rick Use either bsdtar or GNU tar. You can build the former from src/external/bsd/libarchive/bin/tar. No need to submit a PR, I have one already. Joerg