Command-line Compression Utilities

[AntonyD]

It's just that for quite a long time and quite effectively there have been surveys/disputes about WHAT kind of strange set of archivers in a rigid version is sewn into the program for work. And for the first time there is a person who can somehow clarify the reason for WHY, WHERE and HOW one of these outdated archivers is used.
And.... And he prefers not to answer such a simple question... It's sad...

[Profane0360]

I am not actually using it. I only archive with zip and 7z. I do need sometimes to uncompress with arj, rar, xz, bz2. But as the packing options are there, I periodically make sure, as I said, that all is all right.

But I do not understand why the "why" is important in order to fix the "how". "Where" is most of the time irrelevant, as it is usually between the keyboard and the chair.

[AntonyD]

Because you have a suspicion that the INTERNAL archiving mechanism of Total itself is NOT properly working - then the post should have been created in the Total BUG report section. It is very unlikely that anyone will go into current topic, and even with a very outdated archiver, will double-check something.

[Profane0360]

My first suspicion is always that I myself am doing something wrong.