GNU bug report logs - #8968
arc-mode 7z writing support

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Message #55 received at 8968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: juri <at> jurta.org, 8968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8968: arc-mode 7z writing support
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:05:08 +0300

> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>,  8968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:34:59 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I don't have a definitive answer.  All I know is that arc-mode could
> > not handle certain archives that I could handle with a 7z.exe
> > downloaded for comparison.  I then researched this issue and found out
> > that those archives used a newer format that the Free Software
> > variants of 7z did not support.
> 
> Were these archives .rar archives?

No, they were "*.7z".

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