[ale] how do I create ZIP files

[arxaaron]

It looks like there are plenty of packages for p7zip for various flavors
of non-mafia FLOSS and commercial operating systems as well:

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

peace
aaron

On 2011/10/23, at 18:36 , James Sumners wrote:

> 7-zip better support .xz since it popularized the format[1].
>
> [1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Markov_chain_algorithm#7-Zip_reference_implementation
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 14:51, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>  
> wrote:
>> 7-zip has become
>> preferred over WinZip since it is free and more featureful, and I
>> believe it does support the xz compression format.
>
>
>
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