Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Zip list Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:41:54 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: <87mt55w6ul.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: <0LqcnRugEt7aNnL-nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <871qmhxsw7.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <63f6a3f9@news.ausics.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ab5c45b7081e7d7e05f9b42546d7b682"; logging-data="1751335"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18R094hoQfqWBu1qm8AQZl+" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Brkt3toP5kQO6mxTpW9vhBbsnL8= sha1:zDkK40Fcy/g6/OhWkOPq15sz8so= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37234 On 23 Feb 2023 09:23:37 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > > 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." That I didn't know. That solves my concerns. Thanks. :-) It even handles ARJ as I see from that excerpt. *g* -- Andreas