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| From | Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Zip list |
| Date | 2023-02-22 17:00 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <871qmhxsw7.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <tsqj1j$vvi$5@dont-email.me> <uib7cjx1td.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <tst02t$cgst$1@dont-email.me> <pie9cjxqrf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <vF6dnX8u8o--Mmj-nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:58:58 -0500, 25B.E866 wrote: > > On 2/19/23 6:42 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2023-02-19 12:10, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> Certainly Linux development came with Internet. That is known >> history. >> RAR was very popular in the DOS world, but it started in 1993, so >> the same era as Linux. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_(file_format) >> «RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data >> compression, error correction and file spanning.[3] It was developed >> in 1993 by Russian software engineer Eugene Roshal and the software >> is licensed by win.rar GmbH.[3] The name RAR stands for Roshal >> Archive.» >> >> RAR had good features before internet. It could easily create >> archives spanning several floppies, it had forward error >> recovery... It had some sort of support for script running with >> decompress, useful for installation of programs. > > > Well, even plain old zip could make floppy-spanning > archives WAY back. RAR seems so yesterday. Thus I just installed ARJ and LHA for good manners! :-D > 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. But then, ZIP here has a date from April 2009, so i don't think there'll be ever any updates. -- Andreas
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