Question

I have coded a soltion to gz some transaction logs up, however some of them are larger than 4gb and the error I get is :-

“The gzip stream can’t contain more than 4GB data”

ok so the Compression does not support anything greater than 4gb, does anyone have any good alternative libraries ?

Answer 1

As this is for a very simple application I have decided to open an instance of Winzip from c#

    public static void Compress(FileInfo fi)
    {
        System.Diagnostics.Process process;
        process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
        process.EnableRaisingEvents = true;

        string cmd = string.Format(@"/C ""c:\program files\winzip\WINZIP32.EXE"" -min -a {0} {1}", "C:\\testzipit\\q", fi.FullName  );
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", cmd);
        process.Close();
    }

Works well for the case I am trying to solve.