[delphizip] Breaking the 2 GB barrier
- From: "James Turner" <james.d.h.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 13:15:08 -0000
I can't recall if this was mentioned in earlier discussions, but the 2GB
barrier for total size of a zip archive only applies to each fragment in a set.
So if a reader/writer were able to manipulate a set of files without having to
assemble them first into a temporary archive, the 2 GB barrier could be broken.
Of course, backward compatibility is the issue here and most readers would not
be able to cope. Also the size of a single file within the archive would still
be limited.
Thought this was worth mentioning
-- James Turner
www.skaro.net
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