Yeah, right, like I'm gonna learn how to Cygwin (119 pages)! I'd rather try lzip form the ezwinports project [https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/] I can't speak for the majority of Windows users, but most of them will very likely be looking for an application program like an .exe file. This app should have a graphical user interface, probably with drag-and-drop functionality, like any other decent Windows (and Macintosh) application program. Many archive/compression formats can be handled by a handful of nice programs for the Windows platform. With the exception of lzip, you keep pushing. Do you get coupons for this? [please laugh] Greetings, Oscar van Vlijmen
----Origineel Bericht---- Van : eggert@cs.ucla.edu Datum : 17/09/2016 21:42 Aan : vanadovv@hetnet.nl Cc : tz@iana.org, lzip-bug@nongnu.org Onderwerp : Re: [tz] Time zone change in Turkey - lzip
vanadovv@hetnet.nl wrote:
I know you are planning to distribute TZ also in the old gz format, at least for the moment.
Please don't worry, it's going to be for more than just "the moment".
I have found the program Lzip from Antonio Diaz at lzip.nongnu.org, but this is not a Windows program. Somebody has made a port to Windows 32-bits 6 years ago. But does this work on my 64-bits Windows 10?
I don't know why it wouldn't. If it doesn't work please let us know. Also, you can find a more-recent version of lzip, built for Microsoft Windows, here:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin/packages/x86_64/lzip/
Perhaps the lzip web page should mention this next to where it mentions the older Windows32 port, as that might have helped you find this alternative. I'll CC: this message to bug-lzip to ask its maintainer about this.
do we get a decent application program with a graphical user interface
You mean, like the other tools we're using? Like 'tar', 'make', and 'cc'? :-)