Re: Alternative archiving measures
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:13:15 +0200, Lorenzo Beretta wrote:
> On 09/28/11 13:40, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote:
>>
>>> Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert
>>> archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is pretty
>>> ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at least not
>>> the Debian distro. Consequently, to the best of my knowledge, the
>>> "unrar" utility can't be installed and/or used on a Linux system. I
>>> have gotten suggestions concerning certain utilities, but they were
>>> windows applications. Any help would be most sincerely appreciated.
>>
>> "rar" and "unrar" utilities are both supported in Linux and Debian but
>> I would avoid using them in favor of an open compression tool/file
>> formats (such as bz2, lzma, gz, etc...)
>>
> Among those "etc", let me point at sevenzip, it's probably the closest
> you can get to winrar
Mmm, you mean the file archiver application (7-Zip) or file archiver
format (.7z)?
For the former I can't tell, I stopped using it in favor of PeaZip (I
love that small and portable app) and for the .7z file format, if this
information is still true¹ (can you confirm/reject? :-?) I don't think is
the most suitable for archiving in linux boxes.
¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z#Limitations
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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