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
Hi.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:34:14 -0400
dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
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.)
Not really. If you use tar for decompression (and
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.)
Not really. If you use tar for decompression (and not 7za) it will
automatically pipe the output of tar to appropriate
Let me table this discussion where my question is concerned.
there is another copy of this program zipped using regular pk zip for dos
and as a strict dos port.
It is on the same site where I referenced a long time ago the dos ports of
mplayer and other dos related desires.
You will find a
Hey Tom,
the very idea of 7zip is to tar first (internally), then compress.
Very idea of 7zip is a specific compression algorithm, not a way
the compressing utilites work. :)
this is a DOS mailing list.
Yep, and that was an advice that might be useful in both DOS and Linux
(you mentioned
Hi Bojan,
[Tom]
the very idea of 7zip is to tar first (internally), then compress.
[Bojan]
Very idea of 7zip is a specific compression algorithm, not a way
the compressing utilites work. :)
Actually you are BOTH right. As Rugxulo already mentioned, there is
a difference between archives
Hi,
BTW, this is just random ramblings from me, I don't claim to be any
sort of expert (esp. compression programming), more like a power
user (if even that).
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
[Tom]
the very idea of 7zip is to tar first (internally), then
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Karen Lewellen
klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Let me table this discussion where my question is concerned.
there is another copy of this program zipped using regular pk zip for dos
and as a strict dos port.
p7z458c.zip is what I see at the link you
Hi,
Just my $0.02. Mostly I totally agree with Rugxulo, who evidently knows
much more about stuff than he modestly pretends ;)
This have not much to do with the initial OP's question, but
nevertheless, archiving is an interesting topic :) - for me especially,
since I had to do much work with
