Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:59:44 +0100 | | From | Stefan Richter <> | | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:07:02 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> Gzip is well >> defined as a standard, it's even described in an RFC and is present >> on almost any system (unix or not) now. Any student who wants to take >> a look at the kernel will have access to gunzip, even from an old >> Solaris 8 workstation or a Windows XP desktop PC. > > Really? I have a Windows XP laptop at hand and it can't read .gz files. > If I ask it to try, it tells me I should install WinZip. I also seem to > recall that I had to install GNU gzip myself back when I was working on > a Solaris workstation (but I might remember badly.)
As a side note: 7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as a beta. So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as accessible to Windows users as gz is. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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