| From: | Dave Clarke |
| Date: | 17 Mar 2001 at 09:32:12 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: New Stuff |
Once upon a time, 16-Mar-01 15:53:16, Dave Clarke spoke thus about
'[D5] Re: New Stuff':
>> On 14-Mar-01, Keith Halstead wrote:
>>>> I've had a little play with this and found that ArcHandlerEx is
>>>> considerably slower than ArcDir at listing directories in LHA/LZX
>>>> archives when there are lots of files in them (even if they are somewhere
>>>> else in the archive). I should think a good example would be try them
>>>> both with the Magnum Opus archive. Any way to speed it up to ArcDir
>>>> speeds?
>The actual section in the script that does the parsing is very short, (and I
>keep looking at it to see if I can trim bits here and there), with xad
>providing the archive listing in a uniform format, writing a small C program
>to do the same as ArcDirList should be a simple matter.
As an addendum: I've just written one in E, (which seems a hell of a lot
easier than C....probably because it comes later in the alphabet and has
thus evolved :)
Seems to work OK except for a small bug regarding file sizes, otherwise
archive listing suffers a 300% increase in speed ;^)
So with any luck an updated ArcHandlerEx will soon appear.
Dave