-=> Quoting ``Glen Carlzen`` to paul marwick, [02 Sep 99  05:01:57] <=-

 `C> Failure to read "Self-Extracting Archives", if you mean that it
 `C> runs the files, then I disagree with you.  But to VIEW (F3) an *.exe
 `C> file works fine or as it should.  If you mean placing the curser on the
 `C> file and hitting  key I wouldn't call that a BUG.  I would call
 `C> that "Running the program" as it should.  IF you do the same on any
 `C> other OS it would be expected to do the same thing.

No, that's not what Paul means. F3 is a viewer for (largely) text files,
tho it will also view binary files with some small sense gleaned. What
Paul means is the special function invoked by ^A for viewing the
directory of the files within selfex files (self extracting archives).
If you point to a selfex and hit ^A you are supposed to see the same
thing that you do for (for example) a *.ZIP with the  key. The
problem with the ^A function is that in about 90% of the selfex files
that I have tried, I get a 'Oops, that is not an archive I recognize' or
some such msg. Since most of the archives that we have been getting from
IBM, as in the Comm/2 4.61, Java 1.1.8, et al; have all been coming down
the pike as selfex's, it would be handy to peek inside with ^A and
extract the README file. But ^A fails on every damn one of those files.
The only ones it ever seems to work on are those for which I do not need
the README. }^:
Good Modeming!  /\oo/\


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