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Date:	Wed, 12 May 2004 15:45:47 PDT7
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: ZIP problem

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Svobi:

archiver.bb2 is a kind of "decode sheet" that allows applications
to invoke and issue the correct commands for a wide variety of
common and uncommon archivers. You still need the archivers
accessible in your path, but it provides a common access method
for the various archivers and their array of options and switches.

Mark Kimes' FM/2 was the first place I saw archiver.bb2 and it has
since been adopted by Kim Henkel in Ztree Bold. I use ZTREE daily and
would hate to be without it. It doesn't do(un)-archiving by itself,
but rather uses arhciver.bb2 to properly invoke the various archivers
which YOU provide separately somewhere in your path to handle the
various archiver formats.

That way, the "fornt end" (user interface) doesn't have to be
re-written to accommodate changes in the archiver, just a simple
modification to the archiver.bb2 file. That 's what Steven meant
by "future proofing" the application. We all owe a great debt to
the foresight of Mark Kimes, even though he has left OS/2.

If you'd like to try out the new open source FM/2, it is available.
Steven posted it to Hobbes. Although I'm a satisfied ZTREE user,
as is Steven, FM/2 is a very intersting File Manager. You should
at least try it one time. Archive handling is just one feature
of the program.

Hello from California!

-- Steve

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Albert M. Svoboda from Helvetia writes, in part:
> ...
>
> I really like the behavior of ZIPme but believe that I have
> to look for a
> better ZIP tool and would like to get a solid and well known
> Archiver.bb2 tool ;-)))
>
> Any hints and recommendations are very welcome ! TIA !!
> Cheers, svobī

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