Re: decompressing large zip files

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 22 May 2019 14:59:10 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:

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

I doubt that that would matter, anyway. #include <sys/types.h> and all
that.

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

Looking for information on how WinZip (is that what they were using?)
handles large files, I found this <http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/99/>,
which quite clearly mentions the Zip64 extension.

Unless there is some quirk about using that extension in a way that is
not recognized by the Linux utilities (not setting the right status
flag?) ...
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