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Re: file size is too high to zip in open vms 7.3

 
durgavms4444
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file size is too high to zip in open vms 7.3

i am working in MNC in working as oracle rdb admin

 

when i am trying to zip a file in open 7.3 i got this error

"zip I/O error: invalid argument"
"zip error: Input file read failure (was zipping SIM0908.UNL)"

file size is 23gb.. how can i zip when file size is too large

 

Durgaprasad G

 

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Steven Schweda
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Re: file size is too high to zip in open vms 7.3

> when i am trying to zip a file [...]

   Using which version of Zip?

      zip -v

> [...] in open 7.3

   On which hardware architecture (Alpha, IA64, VAX)?  Exactly V7.3, or
what?

      write sys$output f$getsyi( "version"), f$getsyi( "arch_name")

> file size is 23gb.. how can i zip when file size is too
> large

   It's too large for Zip 2.x, not for Zip 3.x.

      http://info-zip.org/
      ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/zip30.zip

   You'll also want UnZip 6.x

      ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/unzip60.zip

   VMS V7.3 (non-VAX) should be new enough for large-file support in C,
but you may need a C RTL ECO to make it work properly until V7.3-2.

   If you lack a C compiler, let me know, but I'm not sure how much I
can do to match V7.3.