I think it would have just complained that the archive was corrupt, not 
that it could not find the file if it was FAT32.... I think I remember 
once using windows backup to a USB hard drive that was formatted to 
FAT32 and then when I tried to restore the file, it complained that it 
was a corrupt archive.

If I remember correctly FAT32's limit is 2GB right?

On Jun 2, 2004, at 3:21 PM, John Hebert wrote:

> 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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