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From: Doug O'Neal <oneal@××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:48:03
Message-Id: h2066q$dtu$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files by Paul Hartman
1 On 06/25/2009 11:31 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Doug O'Neal<oneal@××××××××.edu> wrote:
3 >> On 06/25/2009 09:51 AM, Arttu V. wrote:
4 >>> On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal <oneal@××××××××.edu> wrote:
5 >>>> I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip
6 >>>> archives but I cannot get to it. Trying
7 >>>> version 3.0 of info-zip or any of the other linux & windows unzip
8 >>>> programs has not been successful
9 >>>> in extracting any of the later files in the archives. I'm at a loss;
10 >>>> does anybody have suggestions on
11 >>>> how to retrieve this data? Thanks.
12 >>> Does "any of the other unzip programs" here contain java's jar as well?
13 >>>
14 >> No, I didn't think of trying jar. The process is somewhat slow but I
15 >> have extracted files from a 58GB archive well past the 4GB limit
16 >> and that unzip wouldn't touch. jar has taken 25 minutes to extract
17 >> 16GB of data so it may be a while before the process completes but
18 >> it looks like this is a solution. Thanks.
19 >
20 > It seems you've already solved your problem, but I'm curious to know
21 > if you tried 7-Zip. It is usually able to deal with just about
22 > anything.
23
24 7-Zip did not work. I also tried the fuse-zip filesystem and it didn't even
25 recognize the files as zips.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>