FAT32 limitation?
--- Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
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