Nelson Marques wrote:
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 :)
I think you're right, Joerg was confused...xz was a replacement for lzma to add a file-type header to the front, since lzma didn't do that and if you don't have a file suffix on it, it just looks like a binary blob... I don't remember any of the stuff I read about xz being designed to replace 7z, THOUGH, by transitive property... I think lzma was a first attempt at unix-i-fying 7z/7zip.... Maybe that's where Joerg got the derivation...? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org