On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:09 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Wednesday 2007-03-28 at 23:08 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
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> > I have tried all of them (creating documents with RAR, gzip, bz2, zip,
> > jar format created by Gnome's file-roller) and all of them opens shows
> > junk file name on Windows (opened by 7-zip running on Windows).
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> I think you should also try different programs on both ends. It could be 
> an inplementation problem, not an archive format problem (or not only).
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> > However if I receive a document from a Windows user in tar, gzip, bz2,
> > zip format (when testing, created by 7-zip Windows version), all of them
> > opens junk file name on SuSE BUT if a Windows user send me RAR file
> > (made with winRAR), open it in Linux, the file name is CORRECT.
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> And rar made with 7-zip in windows? If that is also incorrect, then the 
> 7-zip client is the culprit.

7-zip cannot make RAR :~)


> > So: RAR file made on Linux doesn't contain charset information, RAR
> > files made on Windows contain charset information.
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> A rar made with gnome roller. Try another tool; but I don't know which, 
> rar is propietary. I wasn't even aware that we could make rars in linux 
> (version 2 rar, I mean).

I am trying: maybe one version of rar have this charset problem solved
and I simply didn't create RAR in the right version.
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> > The only format acceptable to general Windows user I haven't tried yet
> > is: CAB. This format can be opened by Windows 98/Me/2000/XP. I didn't
> > try it because I cannot find a tool to make such archives. I can only
> > find cabextract in SuSE repository which is used to open CAB format.
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> Posibly propietary.

Absolutely proprietary. But first a user (me) have to solve a problem, I
can only prefer opensource format AMONG things I have tested works.

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> > Still no solution.
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> A zisofs compressed iso? But it wouldn't "open" on a windows machine, I 
> think. An iso later compressed as zip, that would work (or rzip). 
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> Look at Productivity/Archiving/Compression, there are several programs 
> there. You are at a better position to try than many of us are: I can't 
> even test your problem, for instance.
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> I think you have found a problem that should be addressed somehow...

Ah, would appreciate any effort on solving my problem.

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