Robert Pendell wrote:
Actually if the cygwin version of zip is based off of info-zip then it is a known limitation of that library. It has a theoretical limit of 4GB for the zip filesize but commonly had issues with accessing files beyond the 2GB mark. This is documented on the info-zip website. It can be corrected as other applications have come up with ways to allow zip files above and beyond the 4GB limit that 32-bit code imposes.
This is true, but I do not plan to do any rewriting of Info-Zip's code; the web page there: http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html#limits explains a lot of the limitations and caveats with respect to large files.
OTOH, rumor has it that 7-zip supports large files, and better compression. (However, in a cygwin context it does not preserve permisions, so you have to use:
tar --with-compression-program=p7zip .... instead. To that end, please try: http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip-4.47-1.tar.bz2 (I'll post an ITP on the cygwin-apps list) -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
