It could be some kind of 32 bit hangover, but nothing indicated that. My buddy was using Windows 2000 with ntfs and Winzip claimed it could make 4 gig archives. Winzip complained when I made archives bigger than 4 gig, but happily made the 3 gig ones. 32 bits gives 4 gigs if the program uses an unsigned integer.
Next time I use ssh under knoppix or mepis and check with MD5 sums. Chances are that the transfer was the problem. I did not find anything on the web about Winzip, large files and problems with unzip. Thanks for the help. The files were no big deal but knowing what caused the problem is. I'm about to free up 6 gigs. On Wednesday 02 June 2004 03:38 pm, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > > If I remember correctly FAT32's limit is 2GB right? > > Well I think for fat32 its 2^32 - 4GB i guess. As far as the zip file, I > think it got corrupted in the file transfer. I did something like this(1 > GB of data in one zip file) > couple of years ago and lost couple of years worth of stuff. Everything > was cool, binary mode was set, zip file worked fine before upload but > after transfer the file got messed up. after that I found MD5 would be > really useful in situations like these. > > - -- > Karthik Poobalasubramanian > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
