[ale] how do I create ZIP files

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 18:36:51 EDT 2011


7-zip better support .xz since it popularized the format[1].

[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Markov_chain_algorithm#7-Zip_reference_implementation

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 14:51, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> 7-zip has become
> preferred over WinZip since it is free and more featureful, and I
> believe it does support the xz compression format.



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