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Thursday, September 09, 2004

Brobdingnagian Nerds Only!

[No really, I'm serious, very nerdy terrain ahead] Does anyone know how to uncompress a .7z / 7-zip file under OS X? I found a sourceforge project for such a thing but it was little-endian only and OS X is apparently, uh, big-endian. [Don't say I didn't warn you] While I'm reasonably tech savvy, compiling from the 7-zip source with GCC is beyond me without a little hand holding. If there's a quick, downloadable, drop-it-in-place-and-type-one-line-on-the-command-line kind of way to uncompress a 7-zip I would love to hear about it. Or maybe someone will hear this request and make one themselves. [OK, that's done. Lazyweb, help me please!]

Update (May 3, 2005): Looks like there's active development on a 7-zip port for OS X now. Finally.

Posted at 11:21 AM

Comments

001. Mark

I wonder why, oh why you are do determined to uncompress this file. Just what could be in it? Hmmmmm.

Posted at 12:53AM on Saturday, September 11, 2004

002. Caitlin

Can't you byteswap the file first? Or byteswap the uncompressed bits after? You can definitely do byteswapping from the command line (albeit with something horrible like 'dd')

Posted at 06:02PM on Saturday, September 11, 2004

003. me

I know not of this byteswapping of which you speak. But the problem is that the utility for the un-7z'ing only runs on little-endiian machines. I think that means the source has to be edited to make it big-endian compatible before you can even compile it.

But then again, I don't know anything about anything when it comes to this schtuff.

Posted at 01:27PM on Saturday, September 18, 2004

004. Caitlin

I'd never heard of 7-zip before you mentioned it; but oddly enough, it came up on the Gentoo-User mailing list the other day. Executive summary: you're doomed, unless you can find an Intel machine to decompress it on.

Posted at 05:24PM on Sunday, September 19, 2004

005. me

Sigh.

Posted at 01:10PM on Wednesday, September 29, 2004

006. goatboy

randomly passing through your site, but i happened to see a bunch of crazy mac'ers arguing about this only yesterday. ive no way to check if this works, but this is the link they ended up settling on. no guarantees http://www.ltc.lu/enseignants/carlo.noben/files/7za.zip

Posted at 01:03AM on Tuesday, October 26, 2004

007. goatboy

also your cgi fails if you preview before posting. or at least does for me.