On a recent trip, I tried to exchange some files with a Windows using friend but had problems. He was using a recent evaluation version of Winzip and I used tar. We moved files by setting up my computer as an ftp server and using the Microsoft ftp client. I was careful to remember to change type to "binary" by hand but things did not work out.
The evaluation version of Winzip would not work with archives larger than 4GB. This kept him from being able to unpack my 5 GB tar file and forced us to make two 3 GB archives of his files. I was then unable to uzip his archives with info-zip's unzip. I get the message, "unzip filename.zip unzip: cannot find filename.zip, filename.zip.zip or filename.zip.ZIP" Is there anything besides the obvious MS ftp ascii/binary error that would make this kind of problem?
