On Friday 17 July 2009, McKown, John wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
>
> > The question is whether jar can support the Zip64 file
> > format, and
> > hence can support archives that can 1) be larger than 4 GB, and 2)
> > contain individual files that are larger than 4 GB.
> >
> > As far as I know, Zip64 support is only available in the
> > latest Sun beta of JDK7. Is my info not up to date?
>
> Well, this likely doesn't help. But on my Linux/Intel system, I
> created a text file which was 4.7 Gb (5,033,145,276 bytes). I used
> the jar command to create a .zip file which was 260Mb (272,331,844
> bytes) in size. I am running the "IcedTea" version of Java on my
> Linux system, which is 1.6.0 .
Good to know - guess my info *is* out of date. I'll have to try this
out.
> Unfortunately, I cannot test on z/OS as I just can't get that much
> storage.
I know the problem well.
Cheers,
Bob
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Bob Woodside
Woodsway Consulting, Inc.
http://www.woodsway.com
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