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to: CHARLES BOWMAN
from: ROY J. TELLASON
date: 1998-05-25 17:30:00
subject: utilities

Charles Bowman wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 CB> Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Nicky Morrow:
 NM> IMHO, the best archiver for OS/2 is the OS/2 version of RAR.  
 NM> It is cuurently at v2.03.
 RJT> Best in what way?  It's unfortunately not one of the archivers
 RJT> that's supported under InspectA,  which is unfortunate,  as that
 RJT> program makes dealing with archives *so* much simpler.
 CB> It is possible to add it, I used to have mine set up to
 CB> handle RAR files.  Problem is I lost the setup and haven't
 CB> had the sense to recreate it.  I do know that it is
 CB> possible, though it required an alt- combination versus
 CB> the internal Zip support.
That's unfortunate,  as not being able to add stuff in this area is one of 
the few shortcomings of this program.  For one thing,  there's a number of 
options in there that I've *never* encountered,  and for another,  there's 
archivers I'd like to be able to use that aren't in there -- for example 
looking at *.lbr files from under cp/m ,  or *.tar.z or *.gz files from 
unix environments,  and so forth.
It's *so* nifty to be able to look "inside" an archive by just whacking the 
enter key like I usually do,  including some stuff that's labeled as a *.exe!
Can you elaborate just a bit as to how you managed to do that,  even if you 
don't have the exact details?
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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