[erlang-questions] Support for zip archives > 2GB

[Jakob Cederlund]

The zip module currently only supports 32-bit zip, so there are some 4Gb
limitations. (There is an extended format, which most utilities can use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#ZIP64 )
/Jakob


2017-05-22 8:05 GMT+02:00 Karolis Petrauskas <k.petrauskas@REDACTED>:

> Hello,
>
> Maybe you can point me, where to look for the cause of the limitation?
>
> Karolis
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Karolis Petrauskas
> <k.petrauskas@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Documentation for the zip module says, that archives bigger than 2GB
> > are not supported (http://erlang.org/doc/man/zip.html#id279135). I
> > tested that and was able to extract and create an archive of ~3.6GB.
> > Is the note in the documentation is not relevant anymore?
> >
> > BR,
> > Karolis
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