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p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads (Announce)

posted by Khusraw , Bucharest, Romania, 06.08.2010, 22:33

> Thank you, what a wonderful gift! After testing, your version does seem
> more stable, and it works perfectly for me with the delta filter, and -mx9
> mode works well on all files now. With david's compile, neither worked, but
> crashed with SIGSERV errors. Also, most remarkably, this version is only
> 905kb uncompressed, and 355kb UPX'd. Nearly *half* the size of the other
> versions! Great reduction in bloat!

Are you sure that -mx9 works always well?! Sometimes I get crashes when compressing .7z LZMA with -mx9 (BZip2 works OK).

> The only 'problem' or bug I notice is that your version still has the
> PKUNZIP bug where the created .ZIP files are tagged for UNIX (0x03) in the
> .ZIP headers, and ideally they should be for DOS (0x00). I seem unable to
> patch your binary like I did with Rugulxo's p7zip compile of 4.65. In that
> other thread.

I simply built the program from the official source code package, I didn't apply any patch except that I added three functions trivial to implement. What I mostly dislike to this build is that it is too Unix oriented, the program accepts only slashes (not backslashes) and it requires case-sensitivity in the paths. After my tests I think that Rugxulo's v4.65 build is still the best p7zip package available for DOS.

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Complete thread:

• p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads - Khusraw, 05.08.2010, 17:07 (Announce)
  • p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads - Zyzzle, 06.08.2010, 22:08
    • p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads - Khusraw, 06.08.2010, 22:33
      • p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads - Zyzzle, 07.08.2010, 09:05
        • p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads - Khusraw, 07.08.2010, 14:02
        • p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads - Khusraw, 07.08.2010, 20:11
          • p7zip 9.13b with FSU pthreads - Zyzzle, 08.08.2010, 02:57
            • New alternative p7zip 9.13b compiles - Khusraw, 09.08.2010, 00:17
              • New alternative p7zip 9.13b compiles - Zyzzle, 09.08.2010, 11:21
                • New alternative p7zip 9.13b compiles - Khusraw, 10.08.2010, 18:41
                • My latest and last p7zip 9.13b build - Khusraw, 13.08.2010, 17:43
                  • My latest and last p7zip 9.13b build - Zyzzle, 15.08.2010, 08:20
                    • My latest and last p7zip 9.13b build - Rugxulo, 08.11.2010, 21:43
                      • My latest and last p7zip 9.13b build - Rugxulo, 11.11.2010, 21:23