Joerg Schilling writes: > James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > > > Danek Duvall writes: > > > As a caution to anyone who uses 7z, it is not useful as a general > > > purpose archiver on unix systems, as it does not store user and > > > group permissions. This is thanks to its Windows heritage. > > > However, there is no issue with its usage for compression of > > > individual files. > > > > With Windows heritage, shouldn't this feature eventually support the > > PSARC 2007/315 interfaces used by the CIFS server? > > star will do this soon..... it already allows to archive and restore the *BSD > extended file flags.
Can we _please_ stay on topic here? The topic is an architectural review of "7z." -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
