Wednesday Feb 13, 2008

What is 7z:
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
7z home page: http://www.7-zip.org/

Download 7z source code(7zXXX.tar.bz2) from :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14481

Compile on Solaris:
Uncomprese source file, then:
1>cp makefile.solaris_x86 makefile.machine.
2>set up CBE env.
3>make
4>make install

Usage simple:
7za a archive.7z myfile
compress and archive myfile to archive.7z
7za x archive.7z:
: extracts all files from archive archive.7z
                   to the current directory

You can see Readme have more detail information.

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