Re: Enhancement request..xz support.

  • From: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:10:37 +1100

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:56:10 -0400
Charles A Edwards <eslrahc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add support to the pack/unpack plugin for the .xz file extension.
> 
> It is based on the lzma sdk and actually uses lzma2 for compression
> within an xz wrapper.
> 
> URL http://tukaani.org/xz/
> 
> I've added it to filetypes and can unpack without issues but I ran
> into a roadblock trying to modify the plugin code to support xz.

Without access to any such files, I need some details. Perhaps you can advise:
* file extension always .xz, or .tar.xz, or both, or ... ?
* mimetype is application/x-xz ?
* xz utility commands-syntax
   pack: xz ...
   unpack: xz ...
   is there an overwrite option for these ?

Regards
Tom


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