On Jul 22, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Ed Howland wrote:
Has any one played with this?
I have, but not in a long while. I remember it worked well, just
differently from WinZip.
I tried it on a folder. Right clicking, then I Add to Archive.
This brings up the 7-Zip menu. I selected Zip format (7z is the
default) and left other settings as default (Normal compression etc.)
7-zip can also create self-extracting zip archives.
It resulted in a slightly thinner zip file. WinZip was able to
extract it and the files were identical. It does change the the
path setting so by default, you get a folder to extract things into
matching the original folder name. I'm used to the way tar.gz files
usually work is F/LOSS stuff. And you aren't liekly to extract a
bunch of stuff to litter your c:\ root folder with.
Licensed under the LGPL but I don't know how to obtain the source
for it. Perhaps you have to register?
Have a look on the downloads page:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
For example, here's the Windows source:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z423.tar.bz2
Let us know how you like working with it as you explore the code.
Regards,
- Robert
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