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Re: [Mingw-users] Spiel on 7-zip on the MinGW Download Page?
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From: Greg C. <chi...@mi...> - 2003-05-14 14:13:42
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Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Luke Dunstan wrote: > > > > > "Ranjit Mathew" <rma...@ho...> wrote: > > > > > > On the MinGW site's "Download" page: > > > > > > http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml > > > > > > there's a short spiel on 7-zip that looks, IMHO, totally > > > out of place. Why is it there? > > > > I guess you were struck by the comment about "one of the best > > compression algorithms available", but I think this comment was added > > primarily to provide a _free_ alternative to Winzip for _extracting_ > > MinGW packages, rather than to convince everyone to use its own format. > > I'm not against removing this part if other people agree with you, but > > to me personally it seemed more like humour than advocacy. Humor, for those who know the context. Others might see it as advocacy, though. BTW, is "don't" intended here? If you don't need a compression/decompression utility, ^^^^^ I suggest you visit 7-Zip for one of the best compression algorithms available. > Also will decompress bz2 in GUI fashion as well and many other > non-standard to windows archive types as well. Do we know whether 7-zip lacks the documented problems with winzip? http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml WinZip Caution: Make sure that you first uncheck the "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" checkbox found in the Configuration -> Miscellaneous tab of the Options menu. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-03/msg00409/INSTALL.edited !! WARNING: DO NOT USE WINZIP OR SOME SUCH WINDOWS TOOL TO UNPACK. That will certainly screw up hard links and you'll end up with a non-working system. And, please do resist the impulse to send me email telling me that I am wrong about this. !! > perhaps some rewording but I prefer to leave it just for information. Suggestion [if true]: <p> If you prefer a GUI tool for extracting packages, we've found <a href="http://www.7-Zip.org" target="_nw">7-Zip</a> fast and reliable. </p> |