Unzipping large files on linux

Thanks to Thomas Stromberg for describing this increasingly essential tool p7zip for extracting zip files (usually created using PKZip 4.50) which contain files larger than 4 gigabytes. You'll know you need it if you see a skipping: warning containing the following message from unzip:

need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)

Download p7zip and build it using:

make
make install

Use it like this to extract the files from the big zip archive:

7za x bigfile.zip

-- PeterKnaggs - 21 Jul 2005

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