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p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file. And I don't have to download anything to open a .zip or .tgz. Compressing a directory is

• simoncion 11y ago
  > p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file. If you're running KDE (and I think GNOME), the built-in GUI de-compressors handle 7-zip just fine. > Compressing a directory is a solved problem with standard solutions. shrug 7-Zip compresses at least as well as RAR, and doesn't have a file format that permits feeding executable bytecode to a probably-not-very-well-examined bytecode interpreter. [0] [0] True story! http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-with-constrained-programming.html http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-with-constrained-progr...
• DanBC 11y ago
  >And I don't have to download anything to open a [...] .tgz. You do on some OSs. http://superuser.com/questions/234649/how-to-extract-a-tar-file-tgz-in-windows http://superuser.com/questions/234649/how-to-extract-a-tar-f...
• pmarreck 11y ago
  > p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file I know, googling "7zip OS X" and seeing that the first link ends up directing you to p7zip, is incredibly hard. > You really should have a reason to push something like 7zip How about, it has the best compression available from an open-source compressor. RAR is not open-source.