19 May
2005
19 May
'05
3:32 p.m.
I don't know about zip, but the limit in tar files for most unixes
(and anything else that uses gnu tar on an OS that supports files
larger than 2GB) has been 2^63-1 bytesr. It's been that way for at
least 5 years now.
I'd be surprised is there wasn't a 64bit file offset zip version.
For gzip, you need a patched version of 1.2.4, or one of the 1.3.x
betas. This has also been available for some time
Eric
On 5/18/05, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
If it *is* portable, it might seem a better
choice for archives over
tar, simply because more systems these days can handle zip files than
can handle tar files...
"Portable" is in the eye of the beholder. Both formats don't support
sizes
over 4 gigabytes (unsigned 32-bit dword) so I don't use them any more.
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