Gord Hannah wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 PM>> failure to read most self-extracting archives,

 JS> Which file manager handles more self-extracting archives?  Most
 JS> file managers don't handle them at all, in fact most don't
 JS> handle regular archives let alone self-extracting ones

 GH> FC/2 easy highlight the self extracting file then use the
 GH> key combination of ctrl pgdn voila the files are listed and
 GH> ready for extracting.  I use it quite often here.

OS2 Commander you highlight the self extracting file, then use the key combo
of Ctrl A and the files are listed also.  OS2C works with zips, arj and lhz
self extracting archives.  It works with most all regular archives though, and 
you can define your own in it's config file.  I personally detest
self-extracting archives, and they should be banned totally for most
everything other than distributing the compression program itself, IMO.

 GH> Not as elegant as my old DOS Stand by SHEZ but it does the
 GH> job.  I got spoiled with SHEZ so therefore all file
 GH> commanders are hard pressed to match it, I used SHEZ to the
 GH> "n"th degree on my old system,
 
I used SHEZ myself until I got OS2 Commander, which I thought was more elegant 
than SHEZ.  Much cleaner and made everything very consistant (as does FC/2 I
imagine)  Shez reminds me of LIST, in that they try to be a file manager when
the sole purpose was something else.  FC/2 and OS2C are file managers and they 
natuarally include managing files in archives as well.  Sort of the dog
wagging the tail rather than the tail wagging the dog.  
  
 GH> practically did everything with it. The only problem I had
 GH> after moving to OS/2 was that SHEZ choked and all emails to
 GH> see if he would revamp it a bit and update SHEZ author were
 GH> NOT answered, too bad for me.  INSPECTA I never could get my
 GH> mind wrapped around it.  I used to use mfm to manage my
 GH> FILES.BBS on my old system, Shez to do the rest. 

 GH> TODAY I use FC/2 and a file manager for ADEPT to do my
 GH> FILES.BBS stuff.

I use OS2 Commander for everything, it is always running on my system, and
comes up at boot up, along with CRON, my BBS and an OS/2 Window.  It does
about everything I can think of, and, when Wolfgang was active and receptive
to ideas, the only thing I could think of I wanted was to increase the command 
line to more than 80 characters, which he did, and a method to save the color
configurations, which he did.  Their are a couple of minor nats I'd like to
see fixed, but I guess that won't be happening, but I can easily live with
them.

Good to see you still around Gord.

                                              Jack 
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