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

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 08:26:45 pm Roger Merchberger did opine:

> 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.
> 

Nope, pclos, which is a rolling update distro, originally based on 
mandriva, but now appearing to run ahead of mdv a week or so.  I use kde, 
and have had 4.5.3 running nicely for about a week.  Schweet!

> 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.
[...] 
Chuckle.  That prompted me to do a locate p7zip, which spit out about 75 
files associated with it, so obviously pclos has it.

Thanks for the poke, Roger.

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