From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rar 7z for dired-compress-file-suffixes and dired-compress-files-alist Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:42:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83sh5s3qie.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgbkvy6n.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83fu1sovsh.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1r4dm7o.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528821705 27981 195.159.176.226 (12 Jun 2018 16:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 18:41:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fSmMV-0007Ad-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:41:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSmOc-00008I-7f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:43:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSmNW-00006t-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSmNT-0004TE-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:42:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39721) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSmNS-0004T1-Vb; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:42:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4064 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fSmNS-0007iu-DK; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:42:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k1r4dm7o.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes on Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:05:31 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226266 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:05:31 +0200 > > > Yes, AFAIK the full-featured versions that run on Windows are not Free > > Software, and the Free variants are not capable of opening archives > > one finds nowadays. > > 7z is LGPL/public domain. AFAIK, not all of the code that went into the Windows binary was under that license. But maybe my information is stale, I simply avoid these tools altogether, given the wealth of good formats supported by bsdtar.