[ale] Semi OT: zip compatibility between Linux Mac Windows

[Joey Kelly]

On Sunday, September 19, 2021 09:10:24 PM Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> I was playing around with that this early evening. In general Linux uses
> command line utilies to create or uncompress archives. Then someone writes
> graphics front-end to be easy on mice users.
> 
> On my Antix distro the utility for zip files is 7zip variant. And as we
> discussed on the meeting is not compatible with Linux or Mac on passwords.
> 
> But when tried Puppy Linux the utilies included there are the original zip
> and unzip from Info-zip and zip files are compatible with Windows.
> 
> I suppose you can install these in you Mint distro and some how make it
> default for your archive manager.

Yes, install regular zip. I'm sure it's available for all distros.

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