[Coco] V-Term here... [Color Computer] Re: Terminal Program

[Roger Merchberger]

On 11/16/2010 03:48 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 03:40:04 pm Little John did opine:
>
>> Gene,
>> There are some unofficial 7-Zip versions for Linux here:
>> http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
>> If you prefer, I can redo these files as ".zip" for you to put on your
>> site. I've just gotten so accustomed to using 7zip that I sometimes
>> forget it isn't nearly as widespread as zip... I think it's getting
>> there though... JohnT
>
> Yes I think it is, and we have a new, quite a bit more efficient 'zipper' for
> linux that was just announced, using a new, much larger window for the
> dictionary like bz2 uses so it detects and factors out redundancy's over a
> 20 Gb dir tree that is full of say 200 copies of the kernel source code,
> and smunching the output file to less than 2% of the original size.
>
> As I said, it appears that ark, which is a gui that manages all the
> compression tools in one window, can show me a directory listing, and I
> assume it can unpack it when I get a directory prepared.  Not to worry in
> other words, and thanks much for the offer.
>

Not sure what distro of Linux you're running there, Gene, but the flavor 
that I have on my Ubuntu 10.04LTS (Lucid Lynx) is called p7zip -- it's 
just a 'sudo apt-get install p7zip' away if you're running a Debian 
style distro.

The p7zip that I have integrates right into the "standard" archive 
manager and supports the right-click "Extract" menu system.

I've just verified that p7zip is also available on 8.04LTS (hardy heron) 
server edition.

I haven't run an .RPM based flavor of Linux in quite a little while, so 
I'm afraid if you're running RedHat/SuSE/YDL or somesuch, I could prolly 
figure it out, but I wouldn't be able to test it; the wife's SuSE 9.2 
Pro install on her (now abandoned for a newer laptop) desktop box is 
quite long in the tooth and I had 'issues' installing newer libraries to 
support newer software... a couple years ago... ;-)

For y'all that think 7z stuff isn't available for you, there's Windows, 
MacOS clients & many more; it's free software in both the "Beer" and 
"Speech" meanings. ;-) Just head over to www.7-zip.org and find a flavor 
that fits you best.

There will be more files available on the website soon...

Thanks!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger