current-users: dd: "seek offsets cannot be larger than 2147483647"

Subject: dd: "seek offsets cannot be larger than 2147483647"
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/27/1996 10:29:47

Is there any point in having dd retain this restriction?  It does look like
it will be some work to remove it, but it proved awfully inconvenient when
I wanted to verify the exact size of a 2063GB disk drive I just bought...