Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I have a Solaris 9 box that I have a huge honking *.zip file on. When I 
> try to unzip the file, I get a
> skipping: big_honking_file.txt need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.0)
> 
> I googled on the error and found that:
> 
> It seems that Info-Zip <http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/>, the 
> standard open source archiving utility that comes with many UNIX 
> distributions, does not support unzipping files who’s original size was 
> over 4GB. Most open source archiving packages make use of Info-Zip code, 
> so they do not support it either. When you try to unzip a file like 
> this, you get an error:
> 
> |skipping: yeas3/yeas3.TRC need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)
> |
> 
> |
> Here is the link to the article:|
> 
> |Link to article - 
> http://toadstool.se/journal/2005/01/11/unzipping-large-files-in-unix
> |
> 
> 
> I looked at the man page for unzip and found:
> 
> v5.32 3 Nov 97 Info ZIP
> 
> I assume zipped files greater than 4GB were scarcer than hen's teeth 
> back then.
> 
> So my question is to all the Linux people on the list that support 
> Solaris at work. Do you know a tool that I can use on a Solaris 9 box 
> that will unzip a *.zip file that is greater than 4GB?
> 
> Thank you for the time,
> 
> Perry Hoekstra
> 

Have you tried gzip? You should be able to get a binary from the Sun 
freeware site.

http://www.sunfreeware.com

I know I've dealt with files over 4GB on linux with gzip.

Josh

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