[Gllug] unzip - slightly off topic

[Paul Brazier]

Are there any known issues when unzipping very large files?

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.

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.

How do the other compression utilities (bzip, bzip2, etc.) compare when
unzipping large files?
Or is the problem likely to be with the operating system (disk space,
memory, etc) and not the compression utility used?

Are there any websites discussing this issue?

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Paul Brazier
Cosmos UK 


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