GNU bug report logs - #5475
Archives with filenames with square brackets

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 5475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
Subject: bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:48:21 +0100

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> wrote:
>
> Even though it's quite rarely used format, sometimes when I try to visit
> a 7z archive in Emacs, I see only binary data.  At least, nowadays the
> need to visit a 7z archive arises more often than for obsolete formats
> like arc/lzh/zoo still supported by arc-mode.el.

7zip also supports most other compression formats, including password
protection.

When I first started using 7zip it was the only free software that did
this. I am not sure whether there is something else now.
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