zipsplit: Entry too big to split, read, or write

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:17:41 +0200
Bram Kuijper <a.l.w.kuijper at rug.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to use the program zipsplit (version 2.32) on a large zip 
> file (58 Mb) with the following command:
> 
> zipsplit -n 100000 my_zipfile.zip
> 
> zipsplit says:
> Entry too big to split, read, or write
> 
> zipsplit however does work on smaller (< 5Mb) files.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? I find it rather strange 
> for a program to choke on large files, since splitting very large files 
> is to my opinion the only thing for which zipsplit might be useful. But 
> I might be wrong of course...
> 
> Anyone experienced the same problem with zipsplit? Or should I file a bug?
> 

It means that there is an element (file) in the archive > 100000 bytes
(zipsplit does not split files, this is a feature). Chose a more
appropriate size value or use split(1).

-jh