[Gllug] unzip - slightly off topic

[Nix]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Paul Brazier spake:
> Are there any known issues when unzipping very large files?

Yes, >2Gb support is not there (the file format doesn't support it at
all).

> We've get a nightly .zip file of about 0.25GB containing about 1.3GB of
> data in about 20 separate files.
> This should automatically unzip overnight, but fails occasionally and
> unpredictably.

The last three words scream `hardware fault'. Check your RAM and CPU
core; unzip stresses both of them very hard.

> It's running on WinNT using PKzip at the moment :( but there were
> similar problems when it used to run on some Unix using gzip.

This sounds very much like a hardware fault, despite using PKZip.

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