At 11:58 08/29/2005 -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>Gus Wirth wrote:
>> 
>> If you want some impressive compression check out 7-zip
>> <http://www.7-zip.org>. In some cases they get compressed files half the
>> size of a zipped file.
>
>It seems to have no Linux/UNIX client at all. It does come with source,
>and the 7z compression is under the GPL. Is it possible you downloaded a
>Windows client that had the RAR (non-free) format, and that i what is
>giving you the excellent compression?
>
>Also, are you aware of any UNIX clients that do support 7z? My searching
>(google, apt-cache) came up with nothing.

You didn't look on the download page. There is a Linux command line program
provided as binary as well as source called p7zip (I think the first p
stands for POSIX).

Gus


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