On Thu, 6 May 2004 12:06:50 -0500 Michael Kahle <michael.kahle@scc-wi.com> wrote: > I am trying to zip a file for a vendor. The file is named "backup.1" > and is 4.7G in size. That could very well be the bad news. The PKZIP format itself has no proper support for "large" files (I guess that means files >4GiB), only some "proprietary" extension that's probably not supported by the Linux zip. I'd suggest asking your vendor if a gzipped file would be acceptable. If they're using WinZip, that's a supported format. (Also tell them that they should not try to "Open with WinZip" that file, WZ will try to stuff a decompressed copy to the temp directory, which WILL take ages and just MIGHT stuff a partition.) -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabber.fsinf.de
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