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Any app that can pack large files (> 2GB) ?
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Lars Erdmann
2016-02-14 20:23:39 UTC
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I tried zip.exe version 2.8.1 but that will fail.
Will newer versions of zip.exe work ? Will 7zip work ?

Lars
Jörg Rustmeier
2016-02-14 21:28:43 UTC
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Post by Lars Erdmann
I tried zip.exe version 2.8.1 but that will fail.
Will newer versions of zip.exe work ? Will 7zip work ?
Yes, 7zip works. I packed a file larger than 4 GB successfully:
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=de_DE_EURO.IBM-850,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)
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Dave Yeo
2016-02-14 20:50:10 UTC
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Post by Jörg Rustmeier
Post by Lars Erdmann
I tried zip.exe version 2.8.1 but that will fail.
Will newer versions of zip.exe work ? Will 7zip work ?
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=de_DE_EURO.IBM-850,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)
Zip 3.x should also succeed at packing large files. There's always tar
and gzip, bzip2 or xz as well. 7zip and xz will generally compress the best
Dave
A.D. Fundum
2016-02-22 20:01:10 UTC
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Post by Jörg Rustmeier
p7zip Version 9.20
(locale=de_DE_EURO.IBM-850,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,
Post by Jörg Rustmeier
1 CPU)
Can stuff, added to eCS 2.x, including documentation, be distributed
in such a way that users of 1.x can install new components in exactly
the same subdirectories?

As such an "improvement" may be hardly worth installing it, but it
would be better when an upgrade of the OS doesn't result in multiple
copies of the same components.

FWIW, ZIP 3 also isn't distributed as an upgrade which just has to be
UNZIP 6'ed in the root directory of the boot drive.


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Doug Bissett
2016-02-15 03:12:05 UTC
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Post by Lars Erdmann
I tried zip.exe version 2.8.1 but that will fail.
Will newer versions of zip.exe work ? Will 7zip work ?
Lars
I use ZIP.EXE 3.0.6 all the time, for large files. My data/programs
disk ZIPs up into file about 12 GB, and that includes more than one
file that is larger than 2 GB (one is about 10 GB). Yes, they do unzip
properly (UNZIP.EXE 6.0.5).
Post by Lars Erdmann
http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php?page=infozip-zip-unzip
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