Dirk Napierala wrote on Friday, September 19, 2008 9:59 AM: > > We discovered an issue trying to open big self extractingzip files. > Trying to do so result in the following error: > > ./*selfextracting_zipfile*.exe > bash: ./*selfextracting_zipfile*.exe: Cannot allocate memory > > This only happens to huge files (guess above 1.5GB size) Smaller once > are working fine. > > This issue happens on the current version available for download > 1.5.25-15 and also with the new 1.7.0 (base-files version > 3.7-1)(thanks to Volker Zell providing us this one for testing) > > If we are using an older version instead (1.5.18 base-files version > 3.6-1) this issue doesn't show up. > We tried the same selfextracting zip file on each of the above > mentioned versions on a Dell Optiplex GX280 with 2GB memory. > > After discussing this issue with Volker Zell he mentioned to send > this incident to your mailing list. > Hopefully someone can assist us with that and provide a fix.
Have you tried the following? $ unzip *selfextracting_zipfile*.exe (I don't know if unzip can work with self-extracting archives, but I seem to remember that old versions of pkunzip did.) Get native windows zip and unzip and write wrappers? <MAINTAINER ALERT> :-) I do not know whether this might be a solution, but Zip 3.0, was released 7 July 2008. Among other new features is "large-file support (i.e., > 2GB)". <http://www.info-zip.org/Zip.html> </MAINTAINER ALERT> Of course, the problems may be related to unzip code, not zip code. unzip 6.0, slated to have large-file support, is apparently still in the works. <http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html> Good luck, - Barry - Disclaimers: - I'd guess that the above suggestions are worthless, but maybe they will, confounding all expectations, be helpful. - Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
