Re: [opensuse] Transparent Archive (TAR or Zip) Access for Linux?


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From: "John Andersen" <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Transparent Archive (TAR or Zip) Access for Linux?


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone know if there's a Linux counterpart to the Windows ability
to treat Zip files as if they're just directories, transparently
deriving directory information and automatically extracting their
contents on demand?

For what I'd like to be able to do, a KDE I/O slave will not suffice, it
has to be system-wide and transparent so arbitrary scripts and
applications can access it.

Others have provided answers on this thread, I just wanted
to ask a question:

Are you sure Vista provides this as transparently as you are requesting
for Linux?

Because if you open a cmd prompt and CD to a
zip name Vista will slap you down. Its really only explorer that
can do that, same as Konqueror. And I don't know of
a Fuse extension for Vista.

Same on XP. The request is a nice idea but it was wrong to claim that Windows does it and expect to find it in Linux because it existed in Windows when in fact it does not. I laughed when I read that because I knew it was only an application, explorer, not magic-everywhere, exactly like konqueror. But color me surprised when something more than midnight commander and other explorer-alikes turned up after all.

There is a thig called compressed folder in Windows but it's not a zip file.

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