| From: | Victor I. Haaz |
| Date: | 11 Sep 2000 at 21:09:00 |
| Subject: | Re: [RE: AMIOPEN: AmiPak] |
>> There is a tool on the classic OS, which mounts archives as a new device
>> ("archive-filename:"), so all the system can access any files within trans-
>> parently. (It's sadly read-only, AIK).
>
>A much better solution would be if you can "cd" into an archive.
I think I meant almost the same on "virtual directories", (what you just
cut out). (AIK, it's already in Elate, just only with zip, and read-only.)
Though, your additions seems to be good ideas. So that, if I got it right,
that one can handle the original file by referring "whatever.zip", and
as a directory by "whatever.zip/", and the files inside by "whatever.zip/...".
(But how it works in Elate now?)
>Maybe the best solution would be to drop the -r option for cp.
What do you mean?
>[snip]
> but that
>makes the transparent decompression more complex and it
>also might cause problems (because if we have a "good" filesystem,
>then the extensions of the files have no real meaning, ie.
>you can have a ZIP archive with any extension and the filesystem
>will still recognise it - no crashes like on Windows when you
>rename a .BMP into a .EXE).
With a really "good" filesystem/OS, it would mean only some error-
messages, (i.e. if one try to "cd" into a file with a ".zip", but which is
really a picture, etc.).
Victor
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