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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP files over 640k
Message-ID: <B6iDV3w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 6 Jan 91 22:32:46 GMT
References: <1991Jan2.182749.18111@eng.umd.edu>
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koh@eng.umd.edu (Young Je Koh) writes:

> Help !!!
> 
> I created a ZIP file which is over 640k.
> (I have a system with 4MB main memory)
> 
> Now, when I try to unzip, the system gives me something like
> "Insufficient Memory" error. (maybe it was "Program too big to fit in memory"
> 
> Anyway, does anyone know of a way to sidestep this problem???

Now, that's different. I have a "lowly" 640k system, and I regularly
create huge Zipfiles. (Ghostscript is over 700k zipped... I had to tar
it on to 2 floppies)

The question is, did you build a self-extracting Zipfile? If so, you may
not be able to execute it and disolve it. However, you should be able to
extract the members with PKUNZIP. Just give a full filename, so PKUNZIP
doesn't assume the .zip extension
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