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What about gzip/bzip2/tar/tar+gzip/tar+bzip2?
Authored by: sveiki on Thu, Nov 29 2007 at 9:59PM PST

I do a lot of work back and forth with Linux and Unix users. It'd be nice to have a quick look plugin for tarballs that are gzipped or bzipped... I don't really want to do it myself, especially considering xdd's plugins are already so pretty.

What about gzip/bzip2/tar/tar+gzip/tar+bzip2?
Authored by: ndrake on Sat, Dec 1 2007 at 8:13AM PST

Check out this one: http://macitbetter.com/BetterZipQL-1.0

It works on ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary