On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I prefer to just make a 7z archive, instead of a bz2'd tar file. The >> latter requires you to uncompress the tar file then extract it. What >> if you just want one file in the archive? And 7z archives made with >> max compression are comparable in size to bz2 files.
<...> > The main problem is that everyone's needs are different, so there are > many competing archiving formats, even using same LZMA compression > method (although both LZMA and LZMA2 exist nowadays), e.g XZ or Lzip. > By default, .7z files don't preserve *nix permissions, so they don't > usually use that there, usually .tar.lz or .tar.xz : The problem with tar.<whatever> files is you must first uncompress the tar file, then extract what you want (and possibly then remove the uncompressed tar file.) I ran into that with Puppy Linux, where one of the Puppy forum folks had created a ginormous tar,bz2 file of libraries built for Puppy, to help resolve dependency problems when the app you installed wanted a library you didn't have. I didn't have enough space in the file system to uncompress and then extract. I converted it to a 7zip archive where I could open it and extract the libraries I needed without having to first decompress the entire tar file. I could always adjust permissions after the file was in place if that was needed. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
