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bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:41:21 +0100 |
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Are there some problems with 7z that makes undesirable to support it
>> (maybe, it is not free software, or has an unsuitable license?)
>
> Its support for zip archives is sporadic at best. On one GNU/Linux
> system I tried it, it insisted that a .zip file format was
> unsupported, although its Windows version that was older unzipped it
> with no trouble at all.
My impression of 7-zip and the author Igor Pavlov is very positive.
Some years ago I followed the discussion in the support forum a bit. I
found good reasoning from the author. And things got fixed.
I would be surprised if the GNU/Linux support will not be very good too.
> Go figure. And the fact that it doesn't have
> a switch to make it silent, and you need to throw away its stderr
> (which means you cannot display error messages) is yet another
> nuisance.
I think this is a kind of thing you can ask for on the support lists.
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, (continued)
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/01
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Juri Linkov, 2010/02/01
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets,
Lennart Borgman <=
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Lennart Borgman, 2010/02/01
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Juri Linkov, 2010/02/01
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Lennart Borgman, 2010/02/01
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Juri Linkov, 2010/02/02
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Lennart Borgman, 2010/02/02
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Juri Linkov, 2010/02/02
- bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets, Juri Linkov, 2010/02/03