On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Doug O'Neal<on...@dbi.udel.edu> wrote: > On 06/25/2009 11:31 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Doug O'Neal<on...@dbi.udel.edu> wrote: >>> On 06/25/2009 09:51 AM, Arttu V. wrote: >>>> On 6/25/09, Doug ONeal <on...@dbi.udel.edu> wrote: >>>>> I am guessing that all of the data is actually present in the zip >>>>> archives but I cannot get to it. Trying >>>>> version 3.0 of info-zip or any of the other linux & windows unzip >>>>> programs has not been successful >>>>> in extracting any of the later files in the archives. I'm at a loss; >>>>> does anybody have suggestions on >>>>> how to retrieve this data? Thanks. >>>> Does "any of the other unzip programs" here contain java's jar as well? >>>> >>> No, I didn't think of trying jar. The process is somewhat slow but I >>> have extracted files from a 58GB archive well past the 4GB limit >>> and that unzip wouldn't touch. jar has taken 25 minutes to extract >>> 16GB of data so it may be a while before the process completes but >>> it looks like this is a solution. Thanks. >> >> It seems you've already solved your problem, but I'm curious to know >> if you tried 7-Zip. It is usually able to deal with just about >> anything. > > 7-Zip did not work. I also tried the fuse-zip filesystem and it didn't even > recognize the files as zips.
Good to know. I'll have to keep jar in mind for future reference. :) Thanks to Arttu for the tip.
