From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bijan Soleymani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Package for creating/opening zip files Date: 06 Feb 2003 21:23:52 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k7gcj0av.fsf@server.crasseux.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044584320 6337 80.91.224.249 (7 Feb 2003 02:18:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 02:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gy6B-0001e4-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 03:18:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gy80-0003k5-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:20:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!wesley.videotron.net!wagner.videotron.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.201.123.149 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.ca Original-X-Trace: wagner.videotron.net 1044584220 24.201.123.149 (Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:17:00 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:17:00 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109898 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6403 Peter Lee writes: > Does anyon know of such a beast that would work for emacs 21.2 on > winxp. > > Thanks. Not to sidetrack you but there are excellent free extractor programs for windows. 7zip is a very promissing one. Handles zip, tar, gzip, bzip2. It also has its own format .7z which offers the best compression anywhere. Also its zip files are smaller than pkzip zip files. Of course emacs can handle compressed files, all you have to do is enable the feature. Info on this is in the emacs manual under compresssed files heading in the file handling section. However this requires external programs. I think the windows version expects pkunzip in the path. I am almost certain that info-zip (the free software zip) should be a drop in replacement, as info-zip is what is used in GNU/Linux. http://www.7-zip.org/ http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ Bijan