Paul Hill wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Paul M¢Nett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Carl! >> >>> This question was raised a couple of months ago - I believe it was Paul >> > McNett who suggested Zip Genuis - totally free - can work from command >> line >> > - supposed to handle a bunch of compression formats. >> >> Nope, wasn't me... I use the command line for archiving/unarchiving. >> This is tar, zip, unzip, gzip, and 7zip, available on all platforms, all >> free and open source. > > Another 7zip vote from me. Supports everything I care about.
7zip archives seem to be a lot smaller, usually. >> Available even on Windows, most conveniently via cygwin, which brings a >> whole host of Linux tools and the bash command shell to the Windows >> desktop (makes working on that platform almost bearable). :) >> >> http://www.cygwin.com/ > > I use Cygwin for a bunch of stuff. I have C cross compilers for: Sega > Dreamcast (SH4), PocketPC, 6809 & 680x0 (Amiga). I like playing with > old platforms :-) > Technically these are not Linux tools (Linux is just a kernel), but > rather GNU tools. True, but cygwin's mission was to bring something semi-linux-like to Windows. > I just can't 'get' Visual Studio. I much prefer the editor of my > choice (Scite - recommended by someone here!) and a makefile. Does > the job perfectly. I see the appeal of a rich IDE, but now that I'm good at vim and the command line, I can't see ever wanting to use an IDE again. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
