Adding some additional info which I should have included to start with:

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Markus Iturriaga Woelfel <
mitur...@eecs.utk.edu> wrote:

> Here are my findings in relation to what Chris posted:
>
> On Nov 15, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Chris Nighswonger <
> cnighswon...@foundations.edu> wrote:
>
> After some further testing this morning and this afternoon, here is what I
> find:
>
> 1. I am able to unzip the files on our Amanda server using the unix
> 'unzip' utility, but there are "random" " error:  invalid compressed data
> to inflate" errors. These do not appear to affect all files, but that is
> little consolation. Testing the archive with 'unzip -t foo.zip' shows that
> probably a majority of the files are OK, but many throw the same error just
> mentioned.
>
>
> I believe it may be related to file size. I can not even list the contents
> of a rather large (~16G) ZIP file. Unizp on my system is compiled with both
> large file and ZIP64 support.
>

The archive I used was a little over 4GB.


>
>
> 2. Moving the archive to a Win32 box I find that I can browse the archive
> using the built-in Windows zip functionality. I am also able to selectively
> extract various files and their contents seem to be completely intact as
> expected. However, attempting a full extract of the file results in an
> "Unexpected end of file" error.
>
>
> My Windows 7 and 8 systems both hang when trying to open the file in
> Windows Explorer. It's possible it would eventually succeed but I gave up
> after about 20 minutes.
>
>
My tests were done on a Windows XP SP3 box.

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