Message-ID: <63f6a3f9@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Zip list Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <0LqcnRugEt7aNnL-nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <871qmhxsw7.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 23 Feb 2023 09:23:37 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 31 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37233 Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:58:58 -0500, 25B.E866 wrote: > >> THESE days I'd rec 7zip. Does pretty much anything >> you'd ever need and it's snappier than RAR or zip >> and compresses a bit better. > > Still I say ZIP is a common noun. Many people refer to "zip" when ever > something comes compressed in an archive. Therefor the program unzip > should not abort if it finds something else than a zip compressed > archive. Instead find out what it is (Linux' command "file" can do that) > and delegate the job to the appropriate program (like 7z). > > Yes, there was suggested to write a wrapper. But in my opinion that > should be included into the program unzip, as ZIP still a common noun. Not in my world it isn't, it sounds like you just know some very confused people. But what's with the obsession for changing unzip when you could just switch to using 7-Zip for all the various "zips" by default instead? From the 7z man page: "7-Zip is a file archiver supporting 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm featuring very high compression ratio), LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR (if the non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB formats." -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#