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  • January 31, 2008 at 1:25 am #371325
    blake
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    We need to compress some 7GB files for download internally. Turns out .zip files barf with large files on the mac and require winzip on windows.

    Anybody else worked out a solution to this?
    .tgz? .rar? others?

    Blake-

    January 31, 2008 at 1:48 am #371326
    khiltd
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    .7z is gaining popularity, but support isn’t built in to any OS that I’m aware of at the moment.

    January 31, 2008 at 6:34 pm #371330
    blake
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    I’m doing some tests with .rar today. It requires a decompression tool on the mac but our windows users already have winzip which can handle .rar archives. I forgot to mention that another requirement is to segment files into 2GB chunks.

    Looks like any format that uses tar can’t hang with files bigger than 4GB..

    b

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