[haiku-development] Re: 7zip

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Stefano Ceccherini
<stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2008/4/30 Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> > That could be changed, couldn't it? Depending on how they're stored in zip.
>  >  Other archives could have a metadata file or files for attributes.
>  >  That is a little hackish, though.
>  >
>  >  On 4/30/08, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >  > > > compression tool(s) to use with zip-o-matic?
>  >  > >
>  >  > > Not that I know. I would also prefer if it used only a common
>  >  > > archiver,
>  >  > > like "zip" :-)
>  >  >
>  >  > Also don't forget only zip maintains attributes for now.
>  >  >
>  >  > François.
>  >  >
>  >  >
>
>  Also 7zip does. AFAIR Marcin Konicki added support for them.
>
>

I just tried to add a person file to a .7z file and upon extraction it
was just an empty file... So it appears that .7z files do not store
attributes.

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