2011/12/31 Linda Walsh
Joerg Schilling wrote:.
7z only supports some ancient tar formats but not POSIX.1-2001 and it does not behave correctly for uncompressing data as it does not implement the compress(1) CLI. xz e.g. was written in order to get a compliant CLI for the 7z compression method. J�rg
I use it all the time on windows... posix?!? what's that? wait...did I SAY it handled ".Z" extensions...no.... um... like can you read? It doesn't wash your socks either!...
"It doesn't wash your socks either!" - that would be awesome feature...
Does bzip2 handle .Z? does xz? You are missing the point.
I'm not suggesting it replace tar or cpio, or cab-create, or a linker...or any of the other formats it can read (it's great to try on an exe files... shows you all the loadable parts, and all the resources...looked at just like a directory of files..
I was just suggesting it was a bit more flexibile than having to add xz/lzma/zip/gzip/bzip2...ok, so it doesn't handle .Z, but have you ever used. .Z?
I got the source for it and tried compressing... it was slow and sucked!
it was worse than zip gzip bzip...just about anything. gzip was far faster and better, than compress...I literally deleted the binary off my system so I wouldn't use it accidently, thinking that since it was so protected and patented for so long it must have been good... Ick!
As for xz, it doesn't seem to handle the variety of files that 7z did, which is sad..they made it conform by making it stupid. Typical.
xz is just a plain implementation of the LZMA algorithm. It's not meant to be a swiss army knife of packing utilities :)
ok, the cmdline syntax is a bit much like "zip"... so if you can't handle that, then you SOL, but it at least has the ability to R/W STDIN/STDOUT, which I don't think zip provided for (maybe it does, I just don't know about it)....
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