Greetings! I am having problems with a huge zip file, but Linux/Debian's unzip command can't read it: $ ls -all *.zip -rwx------ 1 ant ant 4795524388 2007-11-16 13:14 potbs_st2_client.zip $ unzip -v potbs_st2_client.zip Archive: potbs_st2_client.zip warning [potbs_st2_client.zip]: 500556947 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile (attempting to process anyway) error [potbs_st2_client.zip]: start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt. (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly) $ file *.zip potbs_st2_client.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract What zip v2 command file (no GUI since this is done via SSH) can I use to view, extract, and these files? I assume it is using the newer zip compression format like in WinZip. Thank you in advance. :) -- "We are anthill men upon an anthill world." --Ray Bradbury /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Please remove ANT if replying by e-mail. ( )

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.] On 2007-11-16, ANTant@zimage.com <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote: > Greetings! I am having problems with a huge zip file, but Linux/Debian's > unzip command can't read it: > > $ ls -all *.zip > -rwx------ 1 ant ant 4795524388 2007-11-16 13:14 potbs_st2_client.zip > > $ unzip -v potbs_st2_client.zip > Archive: potbs_st2_client.zip > warning [potbs_st2_client.zip]: 500556947 extra bytes at beginning or > within zipfile > (attempting to process anyway) > error [potbs_st2_client.zip]: start of central directory not found; > zipfile corrupt. > (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the > appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly) > > $ file *.zip > potbs_st2_client.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract > > > What zip v2 command file (no GUI since this is done via SSH) can I use > to view, extract, and these files? I assume it is using the newer zip > compression format like in WinZip. > > Thank you in advance. :) If unzip thinks the file is corrupt, it won't extract. Perhaps "wine winzip filename" or a newer version of info-zip? Or if you have any control over the creation of the file, force it to use older compression (info-zip or gzip for Windows should work.) Ubuntu 7.10 has unzip version UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Ubuntu. Original by Info-ZIP. but I don't know if that will extract your file.