zip

[Eric J Korpela]

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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