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by Ecio78 4749 days ago
afaik the plain .zip doesn't support multi-part archives and that's what they needed due to the file size. by citing 7-zip (site) I was of course suggesting the .7z file format that is opensource and there are softwares and libraries freely available.
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http://www.ehow.com/how_6943340_extract-split-zip-files.html would suggest otherwise, though I can't try it myself at the moment.

  > … 7z file format that is opensource …
.ZIP is in the public domain ;)