| From: | Dave Clarke |
| Date: | 11 Mar 2001 at 05:32:24 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: New Stuff |
Once upon a time, 10-Mar-01 19:34:31, Keith Halstead spoke thus about
'[D5] Re: New Stuff':
>I tried ArcHandlerEx for the first time yesterday and was very impressed -
>well done Dave! Not sure it'll be replacing ArcDir for LHA/LZX and
>ArcHandler 1.8 for ZIP just yet though - but what do you recommend Dave?
Send me UKP100-00 in a plain brown envelope, at the exchange rate it will be
by the time I receive it - I'll be able to retire before I'm 40...(wait a
minute...I already have :)
I use ArcHandlerEx for all my archives now, ArcDir is a little redundant.
There's only CopyAs/MoveAs, (and half the code is already there to do it), to
implement and it will be able to do everything ArcDir does and more.
>I just need to finish off some filetypes for them!).
What, you mean Richard hasn't got any!!!!
>Just one suggestion for when browsing archives in a new lister. When you
>press "parent" it causes the window to close if you're in the top-level
>directory of the archive - could this be changed so you go into the directory
>containing the archive? Even better, for when you're browsing archives in
>archives, could it take you back to the first archive? Anyway, it is nice to
If you're 'browsing' you already have a lister open showing the parent, if
you haven't - why did you close it or change the path?
It would be easier to set this as a ENV variable you set depending on what
mode you want.
>be able to do things like double-click on an ADF disk image, then on a
>.tar.gz file in the floppy disk image, then on the .tar file and then on the
>files in there!
>If someone could find a way of cutting down the access time with DMS files
>and also adding files directly to ADF disk images ('disk' space permitting),
>I'd be very impressed. However, I assume that is a limitation of xad.
It's not a limitation of xad since it only does archive extraction no matter
what the archive is, all other archive manipulation is done by the individual
commands relative to the archive type.
I won't say impossible but would require a bit of stuffing around, ie:
1) extract to trackdisk like device, (RAD:, FMS:, etc)
2) add the entries
3) re-image the device, using DMS, LhWarp, dd, etc, etc
Why bother? Who uses floppies?
But you've caused me to start thinking about it now.....now I won't get any
sleep :)
Dave