* Marco Schuster <ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org> [Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:05:09 +0100]: > You can create a zip easily on all major OSes with drag'n'drop. > Windows supports it IIRC from Win 98 SE and up, a standard Linux by > the tools the desktop installs (for KDE, it once was Ark), and MacOS > also delivers ZIP out of the box. > For ZIP, there are even built-in PHP functions to handle it. > 7zip is, though open source, requiring third-party plugins, both for > the OS and servers, and 7zip is not really widespread. RAR and ZIP are > the dominant formats in cross-platform data exchange. > Also, I remember seeing 7z streams recently implemented in 1.17, somewhere, already (with external piping, probably)..
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