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And while RAR isn't open source, it does at least have source code for the decompression, with a liberal-enough license that it's a usable format.According to this logic, ZPAQ should be your format of choice: open-sourced and a high compression rate.
NTFS streams and ACLsDo you really use them? I know no one who does.-f0dder (August 16, 2012, 03:21 PM)
and pretty darn comprehensive command line featuresWell...-f0dder (August 16, 2012, 03:21 PM)
7-Zip [64] 9.27 alpha Copyright (c) 1999-2012 Igor Pavlov 2012-06-02
Usage: 7z <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
[<@listfiles...>]
<Commands>
a: Add files to archive
b: Benchmark
d: Delete files from archive
e: Extract files from archive (without using directory names)
h: Calculate hash values for files
l: List contents of archive
t: Test integrity of archive
u: Update files to archive
x: eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
-ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include archives
-ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude archives
-bd: Disable percentage indicator
-i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include filenames
-m{Parameters}: set compression Method
-o{Directory}: set Output directory
-p{Password}: set Password
-r[-|0]: Recurse subdirectories
-scs{UTF-8 | WIN | DOS}: set charset for list files
-sfx[{name}]: Create SFX archive
-si[{name}]: read data from stdin
-slt: show technical information for l (List) command
-so: write data to stdout
-ssc[-]: set sensitive case mode
-ssw: compress shared files
-t{Type}: Set type of archive
-u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName]: Update options
-v{Size}[b|k|m|g]: Create volumes
-w[{path}]: assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory
-x[r[-|0]]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude filenames
-y: assume Yes on all queries
IMHO it sucks. The zip format, even with the various extensions that aren't universally supported, just isn't very good...You missed the .zipx format, obviously. Also, if you prefer WinRAR, remember that .rar is a proprietary format too.-f0dder (August 16, 2012, 03:21 PM)
ZOMG THEY MUST SAY GNU/LINUX EVERYTIME A DISTRIBUTION NAME IS MENTIONEDWrong. Not all Linux distributions are GNU/Linux distributions.-f0dder (August 02, 2012, 06:09 PM)