koh@eng.umd.edu (Young Je Koh) (01/03/91)
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??? ----- koh@eng.umd.edu
jimf@pro-gateway.cts.com (Jim Ford, Co-SysOp) (01/06/91)
In-Reply-To: message from koh@eng.umd.edu >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??? Well, do you perchance have any Memory resident programs that you could take out??? (Not permenantly, just to unzip the file.) Just an idea, Internet/ProLine: jimf@pro-gateway.cts.com +-----------+ UUCP: crash!pro-gateway!jimf |Pro-Gateway| ARPA: crash!pro-gateway!jimf@nosc.mil |214/6445113| +-Dallas,TX-+
roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (01/07/91)
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 -- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu Department of redundancy department, or "Take the long way home...": main(){system("perl -e '$x = 1/50; print \"Still just my \\$$x!\n\"'");} [new year, new .sig, same ol' cyberspace]
ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) (01/09/91)
>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??? ---------------------- It may be you don't have enough DISK memory? There would have to be room on your disk for the ZIP file *and* for all the unZIPped files. Same is true when you ZIP a bunch of files, even with the "delete-when-zipped" option, you need the space for the ZIPed file to start with. Hope your problem is this simple... -ted- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ted@helios.ucsc.edu |"He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the W (408)459-2110 |Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness H (408)423-2444 |and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 (RSV)
tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Thomas Brown [901015]) (01/22/91)
I have created ZIP files which are 4MB in size on a 640K system with no trouble; PKZip does not hold the whole thing in memory. PKZip needs a small amount of scratch work memory and enough memory to load the program in DOS (or you will get the "Insufficient memory to load program" message). If you get that message before the PKZip signon message, you probably have too many bulky TSRs loaded which are eating up your conventional DOS memory. If you *do* get the signon message and then a memory error, then you have just enough free conventional memory to run PKZip, but not enough for the scratch area. In either case, check your TSR usage. BTW, I have worked with large ZIPs with PKZip v1.01 through 1.1 with no difficulty. -Tom --=-- Thomas Brown, KA2UGQ BITNET: twb0@lehigh.bitnet Lehigh University UC Box 855 ARPA: tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU Bethlehem, PA 18015 UUCP: ..!uunet!twb0@lehigh.bitnet (215) 758-0093 AX.25: ka2ugq@ka2ugq.nj.usa.na 'You can't have everything...where would you put it?' -S.W.