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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:55:29
Message-Id: 58965d8a0906250855le52f7a0jeb99b4caa8a6d77@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: problem reading zip files by Doug O'Neal
1 On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Doug O'Neal<oneal@××××××××.edu> wrote:
2 > On 06/25/2009 11:31 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
3 >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Doug O'Neal<oneal@××××××××.edu> wrote:
4 >>> On 06/25/2009 09:51 AM, Arttu V. wrote:
5 >>>> On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal <oneal@××××××××.edu> wrote:
6 >>>>> I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip
7 >>>>> archives but I cannot get to it. Trying
8 >>>>> version 3.0 of info-zip or any of the other linux & windows unzip
9 >>>>> programs has not been successful
10 >>>>> in extracting any of the later files in the archives. I'm at a loss;
11 >>>>> does anybody have suggestions on
12 >>>>> how to retrieve this data? Thanks.
13 >>>> Does "any of the other unzip programs" here contain java's jar as well?
14 >>>>
15 >>> No, I didn't think of trying jar. The process is somewhat slow but I
16 >>> have extracted files from a 58GB archive well past the 4GB limit
17 >>> and that unzip wouldn't touch. jar has taken 25 minutes to extract
18 >>> 16GB of data so it may be a while before the process completes but
19 >>> it looks like this is a solution. Thanks.
20 >>
21 >> It seems you've already solved your problem, but I'm curious to know
22 >> if you tried 7-Zip. It is usually able to deal with just about
23 >> anything.
24 >
25 > 7-Zip did not work. I also tried the fuse-zip filesystem and it didn't even
26 > recognize the files as zips.
27
28 Good to know. I'll have to keep jar in mind for future reference. :)
29 Thanks to Arttu for the tip.