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.