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When does "7-Zip" support more formats ???

2005-08-03
2012-12-08
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  • Nobody/Anonymous

    There are some (windows/dos) formats which the program does not support.

    ..., ace, alz, arc, arg, asd, b64, bel, bh, bhx, bin, dz, enc, ear, gca, gza, hki, img, imp, iso, jak, jam, jar, lha, lzh, lzs, mim, rez, spl, sqx, tgz, uue, war, yz1, xxe, zac, zoo, ...

    When does "7-Zip" support more formats ???

     
    • Igor Pavlov

      Igor Pavlov - 2005-08-04

      lzh - in next version.

       
      • Nobody/Anonymous

        *Kisses Igor*

        Thanks. That is one of those formats that are actually out in the wild and even used by professionals (unlike ace,...).

        If you would fix 7-zip to display zip and rar archive comments, I would kiss you again. ;)

         
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Support of ace & sqx would be good !

       
    • heliologue

      heliologue - 2005-08-04

      I understand your point here (and I agree with it, at least for some of the more common extensions), but I feel I should point out that 7-Zip *already* support the .jar format; perhaps not officially, but in that .jar is just a renamed .zip, you can open them just fine.

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Do not forget the rk-format (WinRK).
      http://www.msoftware.co.nz/WinRK_about.php

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      ACE - see FAQ
      RK - never (license)
      TGZ  = TAR & GZ already does
      MIM & B64 - simple, should do

       
      • JoshD

        JoshD - 2005-12-01

        > TGZ = TAR & GZ already does

        Wouldn't it be great if 7-zip said "this gzip file contains a tar file, would you like me to open the internal archive?" a la WinZip?

        Great software.  First thing that I install on every PC that I use.

         
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Correction: MIM = B64 - simple, should do 

      ISO, IMG (FD,HD) - should do, very useful

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      >>> more formats to write an archive, not only to read ! <<<

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      ISO is a disk image: you can create ISO with your CD-mastering software of choice and if you have none then ISO is of little use to you since it is not compressed.

      D.

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Is it possible for you to incorporate the ability to rar files? You can only 7z, tar and zip.

       
      • Igor Pavlov

        Igor Pavlov - 2005-08-05

        unRar license:

        2. The unRAR sources may be used in any software to handle RAR
           archives without limitations free of charge, but cannot be used
           to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary.
           Distribution of modified unRAR sources in separate form or as a
           part of other software is permitted, provided that it is clearly
           stated in the documentation and source comments that the code may
           not be used to develop a RAR (WinRAR) compatible archiver.

         
        • Blu

          Blu - 2005-12-01

          Then there maybe a wrapper-plugin for rarring that uses simple rar.exe. At least for FAR plugin ;)

           
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      And it would be great if both filenames could be supported, .lzh and .lha since I saw both out in the wild.

      According to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA the .lha name was used on the amiga (?).

       
      • Andreas M.

        Andreas M. - 2006-09-06

        > And it would be great if both filenames could be
        > supported, .lzh and .lha since I saw both out in
        > the wild.

        > According to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA the
        > .lha name was used on the amiga (?).

        Yes, that is right. LHArc (as it was named on the Amiga) is LZH with the *.lha suffix. And indeed I  am unable to open any LHA archives using 7Zip GUI, since it does not support the filename suffix :-(

        I would like to ask for support. BTW: One of the largest software archives uses exclusivly LHArc:
        www.aminet.net. Whenever I mount my Amiga drives as SAMBA share, I can't use 7Zip on them :-(
        AmigaOS4 (PowerPC) and MorphOS (PowerPC) use LHArc as well, btw.

         
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Although JAR are just renamed ZIP files it would be nice to add gui support. Its annoying to rename jars if GUI could do that (especially because you have to enable extensions view and stuff)...

       
      • Reijo Tomperi

        Reijo Tomperi - 2005-08-05

        Right click over the jar file and select 7-zip -> Open archive. That works for me (the menu items in right click popup menu depend on your settings)

         
      • Nobody/Anonymous

        There are two sorts of compressed jar files with the .jar extension:

        a) The ones used by Sun Microsystems which are rather renamed zip files

        b) the ones that are an own compression format by "ARJ Software, Inc." which was planned as a successor for ARJ but didn't get widely used: http://www.arjsoftware.com/jar.htm

        If 7-Zip supported the .jar extension it would indicate rather the latter. It is OK to just support the .zip extension for the zip format. Only because Sun and Mozilla use zip files with a "proprietary" file extension doesn't help here. What if IBM used their own extension, would you add that, too, then?

         
        • Blu

          Blu - 2005-12-01

          And then I may say that .wsz is a simple .zip file that is renamed by Nullsoft/Winamp?

          But there may be an option to replace which decoder will be used for each file extension.

           
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      The program must become an universal tool. For as many formats as possible.

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1280609&forum_id=45797

      "... SQX archive format:
      It's absolutely free. Source code and examples are available.
      More information here: http://www.sqx-archiver.org/"
      _______________________________________________
      Add SQX archive format (only browsing and decompression) to 7-Zip.

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      For SQX Spezifications (license) see here:

      http://www.speedproject.de/enu/support/sqx.html
      ______________________________________________________________
      "The SQX format has been fully documented. This means that every developer is allowed to create and unpack SQX archives from within his application without any license fees.

      More information and ready to use DLL's for your applications are available at"

      http://www.sqx-archiver.org/

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      SQX: really freely?
      (Read and Write ???)

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Support Igor. Help him code the program :)

       
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