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Re: ZLIB_UNCOMPRESS limited to 4GB? [message #90679 is a reply to message #90678]

Wed, 25 March 2015 09:52

Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003

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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:20:42 -0700 (PDT), superchromix wrote:

> The 4GB limit is inherent to the ZLIB compress() and uncompress() routines. Instead, in order to access data this large I would need to use ZLIB inflate().
>
> Does anyone have IDL code or a DLM which uses ZLIB inflate() ?
>
I don't know, if this helps: 7z from http://www.7-zip.org/ has a
command line version that can be used together with IDLs spawn
procedure. The 7z extract command can extract files from a zip-file
greater than 4 GB.

I did a test with a 0.7 GB file in a 6.6 GB zip file on my Windows PC.

Cheers, Heinz

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		ZLIB_UNCOMPRESS limited to 4GB? By: markb77 on Mon, 12 January 2015 12:03
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