XZ Utils VS Engrampa

You're having a breakdown. Relax. I'm just trying to have a conversation with you. Nothing personal to get emotional. Here are some resources. For tar, for gz, for xz, for webp, for 7z, for zstd, etc. But, some file extensions were developed for POSIX-like system and how do you expect them to work on windows 10 natively? Thankfully, the community has made it work even tho. It's like me crying over "can you run... Source: over 2 years ago

Thank you for the links but the https://tukaani.org/xz/ link essentially sent me back to python's lmza module and a slightly different lzmaffi library both of which don't seem to have options for reading the dictionary. I do understand this is low-level stuff coded in C/C++ but I wondered if any one made the abstraction to read this data also. Maybe I'll need to make a "script" to read this data... 😑️ this is... Source: almost 3 years ago

These libraries are themselves wrappers of low-level libraries, primarily for performance considerations (as they are almost always coded in C). If you really want to dig into the structure of those formats, you should rather investigate the possibilities of these low-level libraries. Like https://tukaani.org/xz/ for xz/lzma, or https://zlib.net/ for lzw. Source: almost 3 years ago

The p7zip port of 7-Zip is several releases behind and the project seems to be abandoned. I discovered this when a large archive failed to extract with Engrampa which uses it. It reported a "Headers Error" which is due to a compatibility problem between zip format implementations. 7-Zip has a fix but the port doesn't. But there's a fork on GitHub which is being actively maintained. Check it out. Source: about 2 years ago

I use Engrampa. Which archive format I use depends on the use case. For example, if Windows users are involved, I usually use Rar archives. Under Linux, I usually use tar.xz. Source: about 3 years ago