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Updated: p7zip-9.20.1-1


p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives
with very high compression ratios.

p7zip provides /usr/bin/7zr, a standalone minimal version of the
7-zip tool that only handles 7z archives. It also provides
/usr/bin/7za, a statically-linked application that supports packing
and unpacking 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, and tar archives.  Additionally,
it provides /usr/bin/7z, a module-based application that supports
the full set of 7-zip compression formats:
  pack/unpack: 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, xz, tar, wim
  unpacking:   arj, cab, chm, cpio, deb, dmg, hfs, lzh, lzma, xar, z
               installer formats: nsis, deb, rpm, msi
               filesystem images: cramfs, squashfs, udf, iso, ntfs,
                                  fat, vhd, mbr

RAR unpacking support is NOT provided, as the UnRAR license not
OSI-approved and is incompatible with cygwin. You are free to download
the source package and rebuild p7zip *for your own personal use* as
long as you do not distribute the resulting binary, if you need RAR
unpacking support.

[[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-4 and g++-4.3.4-4 ]]

This is a feature release update to the latest upstream source.

CHANGES (since 9.04-10)
========================
* updaste to latest release
* compile using gcc/g++ 4.3.4
  = now depends on libgcc1 and libstdc++6.
* Notable upstream changes:
  = From Windows version of 7-zip
    - 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
    - 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
    - 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
    - 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.
    - 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, APM, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ archives.
    - 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
    - 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.
    - 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.
    - NSIS and WIM support was improved.
    - Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.
    - The support for archives in installers was improved.
    - 7-Zip now can stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.
    - Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
    - Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.
    - New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
    - 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives stored without compression.
    - Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.

-- 
Charles Wilson
volunteer p7zip maintainer for cygwin

====================================================================

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
on the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to
your system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

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