bug#5475: Archives with filenames with square brackets

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>>>> And the fact that it doesn't have a switch to make it silent, and
>>>> you need to throw away its stderr (which means you cannot display
>>>> error messages) is yet another nuisance.
>>>
>>> I think this is a kind of thing you can ask for on the support lists.
>>
>> There is already a feature request for this in the 7-zip tracker at 
>> sourceforge.
>>
>> Eli, if you could specify exactly what would be useful for Emacs then
>> I could add it to the feature request.
>
> I can answer this question.  All major file compressors except 7-zip
> have such an option.
>
> man bzip2:
>
>   -q --quiet
>
>          Suppress non-essential warning messages.  Messages pertaining
>          to I/O errors and other critical events will not be suppressed.
>
> man gzip:
>
>   -q --quiet
>          Suppress all warnings.
>
> If you want add a new request, please ask for -q --quiet at sourceforge.


Which version, the bzip2 or the gzip?