Hello g00r00!

Thank you for your reply!

 g0>  BW> Furthermore, I would suggest adding an archiver entry 7Z (7-ZIP) for
 g0>  BW> Linux to complement the existing one for Windows, or perhaps simply
 g0> 
 g0> You are free to do that if you'd like and send it along.  I'll make a
 g0> note of it in my TODO list in the meantime just don't know when I might
 g0> get around to it.

This was what I am experimenting with:

       Active ³ Yes
    Extension ³ 7Z
           OS ³ Linux
  Description ³ CUSTOM: 7-ZIP
     Pack Cmd ³ 7z a -y "%1" "%2"
   Unpack Cmd ³ 7z e -y -o"%3" "%1" "%2"
     View Cmd ³ 7z l -y "%1" >> "%3%2"

The output from 7z, however, does not seem to be very well suited for formatted display, as it includes a lot of diagnostics.

And the first time you (V)iew it, a red cursor from the File Listing might turn all content output red. :)

The extraneous output can be skipped with an undocumented -ba switch (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/61654375), yielding output on the form:

2021-08-02 19:33:08 ....A            5            9  test.txt

...however Mystic displays nothing then, so perhaps it is expecting something more than just simple lines like that (and possibly in a different format).

Like you say, perhaps something for the future... I think I'll ditch the viewing experiment for now. :)

(I wonder if it is working on Windows? One would think that output should be similar there, with similar problems...)

Perhaps it might be a good idea to configure the archiver for all *but* viewing, so that it at least can be used for compressed file lists, QWK packets etc.

 g0> functions/viewing that Mystic can do. If you find a LZH/LHA file that
 g0> you cannot view feel free to e-mail it to me so I can take a look at it.

Sure, this was the one I tested with:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/thegwolibrary/files/gwo-winxp/gwo0.11/gwo0.11-
sample-win32.lzh/download

 g0> There is no enabled setup for ARJ by default in Mystic but if you want to
 g0> create a view default feel free to do so and send it over, like any other
 g0> archiver.

Tried getting this to work, but didn't quite succeed --

Tried with:

View Cmd ³ arj l -y "%1"

...which resulted in:

ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia.

Processing archive: /mnt/bbs/mystic/files/local/uploads/a.arj
Archive created: 2021-08-02 08:35:46, modified: 2021-08-02 08:35:46
     0 file(s)

Unable to view archive.        

...and:

View Cmd ³ arj l -y "%1" >> "%3%2"

ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia.

Processing archive: /mnt/bbs/mystic/files/local/uploads/a.arj
Archive created: 2021-08-02 08:35:46, modified: 2021-08-02 08:35:46
     0 file(s)

Found     1 error(s)!

I guess >> "%3%2" should redirect output to a temporary file, and Mystic's archive viewer reads that (if it exists).

Are there any specs on what kind of output format it can "parse"?
Because I guess all archivers are different?

Otherwise I'll stick with non-viewing of ARJ archives for the time being (but enabled the archiver to be able to pack/unpack for stuff like file lists and QWK). :)

Best regards
Bj”rn

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