Total Commander

TXZ is similar to TGZ (TAR + GZIP), but TXZ uses TAR + LZMA. Since TC already uses LZMA, it's possible that handling .txz archives would be quite easy.

Sample archive can be downloaded here.

This format is already supported with existing plugins.
Total7zip for example.
I can open your example without problems.

I was almost sure about this, however all needed functionality seems to be implemented in TC already, so I wrote my suggestion.

MarcinW wrote:I was almost sure about this, however all needed functionality seems to be implemented in TC already, so I wrote my suggestion.

Sorry, but what is here the suggestion ?
As I told you TC can handle that format with help of existing plugins.
So nothing has to be done at all.

Where can I find the specifications of TXZ? There is already a LZMA dll for ZIP, but I need to know the header format. It's also not sure whether the specific LZMA implementation is compatible or not.

ghisler(Author) wrote:Where can I find the specifications of TXZ?

It seems that this is a decent documentation for xz, the tarball is the same as usual.
It looks like there is some format mess when it comes to these newer Tar-Archives,
but I think xz uses LZMA2, not the original LZMA and therefore might need additional code for that DLL.

Horst.Epp wrote:Sorry, but what is here the suggestion ?

Do you always have a bad day? The suggestion is in the topic of this thread: "Add support for .txz archives" and in my first post: "it's possible that handling .txz archives would be quite easy"...

@ghisler(Author):
Well, I have no experience with txz format and in fact I don't know anything about it. I just observed that it's becoming more popular (it seems that some new Linux distributions use it instead of tgz), so I thought that it might be useful to have it by default in TC, especially because there is a possibility, that the required decompression algorithms are in TC already.

MarcinW wrote:

Horst.Epp wrote:Sorry, but what is here the suggestion ?

Do you always have a bad day? The suggestion is in the topic of this thread: "Add support for .txz archives" and in my first post: "it's possible that handling .txz archives would be quite easy"...

Again, what is the suggestion if that format is already handled perfectly by a plugin.
This way I can write multiple suggestions, just to handle anything internal what is already supported by plugins.
Whats the reason for TC plugins ?
And no, I don't have bad days, its just funny to write such answers