[delphizip] Re: zipdll limits?

  • From: "Roger Aelbrecht" <Aelbrecr@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:23:28 +0100

Walter Funes wrote:
> I wanted to know which limits zipdll 1.78 have.
> maximum of bytes and files that we can compress and include in one
> zip. how big zip could be ( how many gigabytes ).
> Thanks.
> Walter.
> 
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IIRC correctly:

Uncompressed file size limit is 4 GByte.
Resulting archive limit is 4 GByte.

limits are imposed by the unsigned integers used.
above that we need  zip64
 which is not supported yet

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Roger Aelbrecht
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