Re: gzip and java's jar

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean Claude,

> I try to zip some save files on IFS. I tried first to use gzip. It
> worked very well till it had to zip a file greater than 2G. I've seen
> somewhere that using of QSHELL and Java's command jar would be cool.

There's a difference, though.  gzip creates a GNU Zip file (.gz) and JAR
creates a PkZip (.ZIP) file.

Have you tried gzip using pipes for input and output?  That way, the
program isn't directly accessing the file, QShell is instead.

For example:
        gzip -c < inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt.gz

I don't knov if it'll solve the problem (we dont have any files that large
to test with) but it might be worth a try...


> I've installed Java kit 1.2 on my V4R5 OS. Same player shoot again : It
> worked cool till it had to zip a file greater than 2G. I'm now on V4R5
> OS. Soon we will migrate to V5R3. Did someone use command jar on this
> level ? What was the result on great files ? I know same zipping
> problems appeared on unix (AIX) side.

How did you solve it on the AIX side?  you can always use the AIX program
in PASE if all else fails...