"Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LZH is an archive format which is generated by the lha utility (1). > This format is still popular in Japan, but the lha utility is not a free > software. However, some free softwares which use LZH as their > data format (2) and some free GUI archive file managers (3) > often use fork+exec, popen, or system, to call the > command line program '/usr/bin/lha' to extract the data.
> Therefore I propose a virtual package named 'lha' for those packages who can > provide the functionality of '/usr/bin/lha'. > Note: > (1) "lha" package in Debian non-free section > (2) "fkiss", "gnomekiss" in Debian > (3) "ark", "file-roller", "krusader" in Debian Do all these packages accept a common (sub)set of commandline options? Alternatives only work if the commandline interface is compatible. cu andreas -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, howsoever undertaken. (c) Jasper Ffforde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

