RE: Cygwin support for large files

["Rocco Scappatura" <Rocco dot Scappatura at infracom dot it>]

Hi again!

> > >>> The limitation is in the version of ZIP provided in the cygwin-
> 1.5
> > >>                 ^^^^
> > >>                may be
> > >>> distrbution.  ZIP64 support was added in zip-3.0:
> > >
> > > I sit possible to get from somewhere zip-3.0 for cygwin?
> >
> > Using setup, install the current version. For cygwin-1.5, that is
> > zip-3.0-2 (the previous version, which you may still be using, was
> > 2.32-2 and did not support ZIP64).  For cygwin-1.7, the current
> version
> > is zip-3.0-11 (no version of zip earlier than 3.0 has ever been
> > available for cygwin-1.7).
> >
> > We wouldn't need to go through this if you had followed the
> > recommendations here:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > on reporting problems. Please *attach* (do not paste) the output of
> > 'cygcheck -s -v -r' to your next email.
> 
> I've updated zip and (I hope that) everything works!

I confirm that it works! Still thanks everyone,

rocsca

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