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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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Message #71 received at 5475 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Are there some problems with 7z that makes undesirable to support it
>> (maybe, it is not free software, or has an unsuitable license?)
>
> Its support for zip archives is sporadic at best. On one GNU/Linux
> system I tried it, it insisted that a .zip file format was
> unsupported, although its Windows version that was older unzipped it
> with no trouble at all.
My impression of 7-zip and the author Igor Pavlov is very positive.
Some years ago I followed the discussion in the support forum a bit. I
found good reasoning from the author. And things got fixed.
I would be surprised if the GNU/Linux support will not be very good too.
> Go figure. And the fact that it doesn't have
> a switch to make it silent, and you need to throw away its stderr
> (which means you cannot display error messages) is yet another
> nuisance.
I think this is a kind of thing you can ask for on the support lists.
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