> The problem with x86 (32-bit) is that there's two different memory limits. > The total amoumt of accessible memory is 4GB (2^32 Bytes) but the total > amount of memory per process is limited to 2GB. That means that even on 64- > bit system and more than 4GB of total memory a 32-bit process cannot > access more than that, which is why a ZIP file larger than that can cause > trouble on any system. I highly doubt that Windows will be able to > decompress that file. Depending on the tool you use (built-in unzip tool? > Winzip? Winrar? 7-zip?) you might be able to access the file and view its > contents, but you will probably fail unzipping it. Someone must not have told Windows (XP 32bit) that then. :-) I'm staring at a 6.26GB backup of my samba share that WinRAR has no problems reading & extracting files from. I also routinely burn iso images of DVD's which are around 4GB. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie