I have no problem with 7z, but using an extension for the wrong format is sick.


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:36:09 -0600, Al Ferguson wrote:

>I have found "jar -xf scart0.zip" works fine for me. I like to stick with base 
>product (or other tools provided by/through) IBM, or Open Source vs pulling 
>3rd party versions of generic utilities (I do not trust their maintenance 
>histories).
>
+1 (I said.)

Alas, some vendors (even IBM has been an offender) use "other tools"
such as 7-Zip to produce idiosyncratic archives which nonetheless are
given the ".zip" extension but can't be extracted by prevalent tools.

IBM responded to reports and re-packaged with conventional zip.

-- gil

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