zip could not handle files above 2GB?

[Robert Pendell]

On 6/16/07, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Jun 16 15:28, Pierre Bernhardt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've a problem to create a zip file >2GB.
> >
> > The filesystem the zipfile is stored is ntfs which should
> > handle files >2GB (other programms has not a problem with that)
> >
> > Any idea?
>
> It might be a bug in Cygwin which has been discussed on this list
> 3 weeks ago.  A patch has been applied to current CVS.  See this
> thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00616.html for
> details.
>
>
> Corinna
>

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Actually if the cygwin version of zip is based off of
info-zip then it is a known limitation of that library.  It
has a theoretical limit of 4GB for the zip filesize but
commonly had issues with accessing files beyond the 2GB mark.
This is documented on the info-zip website.  It can be
corrected as other applications have come up with ways to
allow zip files above and beyond the 4GB limit that 32-bit
code imposes.

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