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: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 02:30:48 +0100

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> There is already a feature request for this in the 7-zip tracker at sourceforge.
>>
>> Eli, if you could specify exactly what would be useful for Emacs then
>> I could add it to the feature request.
>
> I can answer this question.  All major file compressors except 7-zip
> have such an option.
>
> man bzip2:
>
>   -q --quiet
>
>          Suppress non-essential warning messages.  Messages pertaining
>          to I/O errors and other critical events will not be suppressed.
>
> man gzip:
>
>   -q --quiet
>          Suppress all warnings.
>
> If you want add a new request, please ask for -q --quiet at sourceforge.


Which version, the bzip2 or the gzip?
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