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[ITP] p7zip


7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio in its native compression mode (LZMA). However, it supports a number of other compression methods (zip, gzip, bzip2, etc). 7-Zip was originally developed as a Windows GUI application: p7zip is a cross-platform (mostly unix) port, supporting linux, solaris, MacOSX, and...cygwin.

One fly in the ointment is the default build includes RAR support, whose source code is released only under a non-OSI license. I followed debian's procedure, and disabled all RAR support in this build -- otherwise, it would conflict with Cygwin's license.

http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip-4.47-1.tar.bz2
http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip-4.47-1-src.tar.bz2
http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip.hint

category: Archive
requires: cygwin
sdesc: "A file archiver with very high compression ratios."
ldesc: "p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios. It supports packing/unpacking 7z, zip, gzip bzip2, and tar archives. It supports unpacking of cab, iso, arj, lzh, chm, z, cpio, rpm, deb, and nsis archives. This version does NOT support rar archives."


--
Chuck


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