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sula

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Registered: 2005-08-07

Posts: 93

Zip - falling behind to windows?

Lately i had to decompress large zip file 2,5 Gig ,so i just unzip [file] but it failed!  :shock:
I double checked if file wasnt corrupted ,but it was okay ,so i tried various options. When i was out of idea i tried to "repair" file with -FF option (single -F wasnt working) and i get output file cutted down to exactly 2 Gigs.
Good i backuped it...
So i went to the source of unzip package http://www.info-zip.org/ and i learned that on 32 -bit systems 2 Gig limit can happen   :?
I also found out that latest version was released 27 February 2005 

Then in a despair i tried to check out windows archivers to uncompress this file (lol?) ,after many tries with wine i succeded using IZArc.

What's the point? We are falling behind to windows in terms of handling one of the most popular compression  :?

dtw

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Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: Zip - falling behind to windows?

Yeah, but one of the most popular windows compression methods!

user

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Registered: 2006-03-29

Posts: 465

Re: Zip - falling behind to windows?

What's the point? We are falling behind to windows in terms of handling one of the most popular compression  :?

All is relativity, in linux *.tar.bz2 all the way.

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sula

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Registered: 2005-08-07

Posts: 93

Re: Zip - falling behind to windows?

Relativitely or not ,it is one of most popular compression methods(or even the most popular one)
And i dont agree that it is "windows"
http://www.zlib.net/  zip library (which is free) is made by the same people who made guess what?
http://www.gzip.org/ .gz widely used in linux community

allucid

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Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

Re: Zip - falling behind to windows?

http://www.zlib.net/  zip library (which is free) is made by the same people who made guess what?
http://www.gzip.org/ .gz widely used in linux community

That's because zlib is a part of gzip.

There are other zip utilities if unzip is the one at fault.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Zip - falling behind to windows?

maybe p7zip works..

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