Re: decompressing large zip files

Peter Reutemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Message-ID <CAHoQ12+UJCgUHSAqxLRiR-ZU9crn9FqSDffbWOWVgkVpFMdBtQ@mail.gmail.com>
> > Only partially:
> >
> > unar -q file.zip
> > Archive parsing failed! (Unknown error.)
> >
> > Ended up with 4.1 instead of 4.8GB of data decompressed.
>
> Are you using a 32 bit copy of zip and/or linux per-chance?
>
> At $dayjob we encountered this quite a while ago and if I recall correctly we had a 32bit version of zip and/or Linux
>
> (I'm not convinced this is the answer, as you've already mentioned that you have a copy with ZIP64_SUPPORT)

Haven't been running a 32-bit distro for a very long time. :-)

And jar/7z utilities handle the large file flawlessly.

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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