ZIP SFX does not support archives > 2 GB

[Flint]

Report from the Russian forum.

Though ZIP now allows to create archives > 2 GB, this improvement is not supported by the current ZIP SFX header. When I try to run such SFX archive, I get the message:

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D:\Temp\archive.exe
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Nothing to extract!
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OK
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Unpacking by internal TC's unpacker works fine.

[ghisler(Author)]

Correct, the SFX module doesn't currently support archives > 2GB. Just rename to *.zip to extract it. It's planned to support it in the future, though.

[ghisler(Author)]

OK, I have added this now for beta 3. Unfortunately 4 GB will be the absolute maximum - Windows refuses to run EXE files >4GB.

[ghisler(Author)]

Self-extracting ZIP archives >2 GB up to 4 GB should work now! Anyone willing to test this? Please make sure to create the self-extracting zip directly, adding the unpacker afterwards would be very slow...

[Flint]

Tested with 3.9GB packed into 2.7GB - works fine.

[ghisler(Author)]

Nice, thanks! Unfortunately Windows refuses to start programs > 4GB, so this is the absolute maximum...

[petermad]

Tested with 3128926 kB packed to 3029986 kB selfextracting file - worked fine.

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks to you too!