PSARC/2007/617 p7zip 4.55

[Joerg Schilling]

Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:27:08PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > I hope the p7zip binary will be included, it is needed by star.
>
> "binary"?  You do mean the script, like you talk about later, right?  I can
> do that.

I am talking about the script, but I would like to see something better.
I am not sure whether I had to modify the script to make it work. I have to 
fetch an original version again...

Anyway, an executable "p7zip" in PATH allows star to automatically unpack 7z 
compressed tar archives. 

> Consider
>
>        /usr/bin/p7zip            Uncommitted          Executable location
>
> added to the interface table.  I've put the man page in the materials
> directory with the rest.
>
> > I also hope that someone creates a version that _really_ deals with stdin/stdout
> > and delivers a compress(1) compatible interface.
>
> You'll have to talk to the upstream maintainers to fix that.

I believe I did but I did not get an answer.

Jörg

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