OT: 7-Zip Issue

Weird! Previously my old WinZip wouldn't install on Win7. Now it just did =-O

So I've scrapped 7-Zip. ...Jim Thompson

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I prefer 7-Zip. Check your version of 7-Zip: For Win 7 64 bit, you should be using 15.14.

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I would suggest *only* using older WinZip. The newer ones come with a lot of extra crap you don't want. Probably the only reason why 7zip is populra.

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Yep. I was able to install WinZip8.1SR-1 Previously, several months ago, it wouldn't take on Win7. Don't know what changed, but I'm happy.

What we need is some billionaire to get pissed at the continual upgrade shenanigans and sue Microsoft into the ground ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

You may need it to open zip files created with 7Zip. I've run into non-compliant .zip files that this program produced.

RL

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:09:09 -0800, Jeff Liebermann Gave us:

Might as well forget it. The guy is hard headed and once he dumps on a product or person his MIT superiority delusion complex takes over.

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:16:40 -0500, Spehro Pefhany Gave us:

It is popular because it works with more compression schemas then winzip (wintardzip) ever did or ever will.

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:33:32 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Dumbass... Neither WinZip nor 7zip have anything to do with Microsoft. Neither do the compression schemas.

Got yer clueless twit cap on again, eh? Or did the doc staple it to your scalp?

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:25:32 -0500, legg Gave us:

Jeez.... compliant with what, idiot? 7zip is its own compression schema. Their applet happens to work with zip files, but the tards in the zip realm ignorantly fail to reciprocate.

There is an option in 7zip to use the zip algorithm that windows uses, otherwise 7zip uses it's own.

Cheers

7zip also does somewhat stronger encryption of ZIP files than PkZip (and Winzip) can handle - this can be a cause of seemingly 'broken' ZIP files to unwary WinZIP users.

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They should call it something else. If PK or Win won't read it, it's not a zip file.

RL

The issue is unzipping 7zip files where this option isn`t used. Why not give then .7zip file extensions, if they`re so proud of their own algorithm.

RL

There is also the point that you can use 7-zip legally for free. WinZip and WinRar are shareware/trialware - if you use them for something other than evaluation, you have to pay for them. It always annoyed me that WinZip were charging significant money for nothing more than a gui wrapper around someone else's work (the guts was all from Info-ZIP's BSD-licensed libraries). It was legal, but felt wrong.

I recommend PeaZip for Windows usage.

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On Thu, 5 May 2016 06:40:46 -0000 (UTC), John Doe Gave us:

John Doe

On Thu, 5 May 2016 06:42:35 -0000 (UTC), John Doe Gave us:

Yes, you are. And a retarded one by Usenet standards as well. Your group adds are a huge indicator.

It... does? It offers the .7z extension. I think it has the option to use a much larger dictionary to achieve higher compression (and also take forever to compress).

C:\>7za a -t7z -r k:\files.7z c:\files\* -m0=LZMA:d=14 -ms -mmt

I used the 7za command line tools quite a bit. 7-zip also seems able to decode Windows .msi files without running the installer.

Michael

Not sure, but it works on my computer.