Perhaps a commercial PKZIP? GZipped Tarball? BZipped Tarball? On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:25:22 -0600, Perry Hoekstra <dutchman_mn at charter.net> wrote: > Greetings: > > I have a Solaris 9 box that I have a huge honking *.zip file on. When I > try to unzip the file, I get a > skipping: big_honking_file.txt need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.0) > > I googled on the error and found that: > > It seems that Info-Zip <http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/>, the > standard open source archiving utility that comes with many UNIX > distributions, does not support unzipping files who's original size was > over 4GB. Most open source archiving packages make use of Info-Zip code, > so they do not support it either. When you try to unzip a file like > this, you get an error: > > |skipping: yeas3/yeas3.TRC need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1) > | > > | > Here is the link to the article:| > > |Link to article - > http://toadstool.se/journal/2005/01/11/unzipping-large-files-in-unix > | > > I looked at the man page for unzip and found: > > v5.32 3 Nov 97 Info ZIP > > I assume zipped files greater than 4GB were scarcer than hen's teeth > back then. > > So my question is to all the Linux people on the list that support > Solaris at work. Do you know a tool that I can use on a Solaris 9 box > that will unzip a *.zip file that is greater than 4GB? > > Thank you for the time, > > Perry Hoekstra > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- John T. Hoffoss _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list