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lzip: Can't create output file (Users)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 07.01.2024, 17:12

> > Wait! It's not completely unusable.
> > The solution is already noted above:
> >
> > Compress: lzip -k -o example < example.exe
> > -> This will create example.lz.
> >
> > Decompress: lzip -k -d -o example2.exe < example.lz
> >
> > Note the redirection operators <.
>
> Ok, thanks for this information, I will modify the help file, but how do
> you know a year later that this file was an exe file and not a gif?
> Especially if you have a gif and a pdf and an exe file with the same name
> in the same folder as it is, eg, in vim?

lzip can't remove the DOS 8.3 limitation. So, this is left as an exercise to the user. One could rename example.lz to example.xlz for an .exe file.

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• lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 03.01.2024, 20:16
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        • lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 04.01.2024, 23:23
          • lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 04.01.2024, 23:29
            • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 07.01.2024, 17:17
              • lzip: Can't create output file - fritz.mueller, 07.01.2024, 18:09
          • lzip: Can't create output file - rr, 07.01.2024, 17:12