Re: How can I access a ZIP file that's over 2Gb?

[Stephen Harris <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:39:28AM +0000, Martin Jungowski wrote:
> The total amoumt of accessible memory is 4GB (2^32 Bytes) but the total 
> amount of memory per process is limited to 2GB. That means that even on 64-
> bit system and more than 4GB of total memory a 32-bit process cannot 
> access more than that, which is why a ZIP file larger than that can cause 
> trouble on any system. I highly doubt that Windows will be able to 
> decompress that file. Depending on the tool you use (built-in unzip tool? 

Why?  It's not storing the whole file in memory, it's writing it out
chunk-wise to a disk.  Unzipping a file requires very little memory
regardless of the size of it.

Even info-zip can handle files of over 2Gb as long as the whole archive
itself isn't 2Gb.

This is _not_ a memory issue; it's a "32bit pointer" issue (historical
limitation on unix before largefiles concept).

As it happens, yes, the built-in XP zip program happily extracts all the
files.

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rgds
Stephen
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