Hello Amit... Am 2008-03-02 13:50:52, schrieb Amit Uttamchandani: > Hey guys,
Grmpf! -- I am not a guy...
> I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family member,
> containing all kinds of photos and videos.
I have accidently ziped my ${HOME} and gotten a 37 GByte ZIP file
> The problem now is they cannot unzip it (using Mac OS X Leopard). The
> unzip tool always exits with an error.
:-)
> Now, I haven't received the zip file yet...still downloading it through
> scp. So now my question is, can I use the split utility to break these
> files into smaller pieces and unzip it?
You can use "zipslit" if it has LFS support (files longer then 4 GByte)
> And also, is there a tool to browse zip files...like how midnight
> commander is able to browse tar.gz files without decompressing them.
> From there on, I can just copy the most important files out without
> having to decompress the entire thing.
I can browser ZIP files like TAR archives without any problems, but as
with TAR files you must give "mc" enough time to decompress it in
${TMPDIR} which should have at least 300% of the size of the ZIP file.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
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