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to: Andy Roberts
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-09-12 08:05:12
subject: File Managers

Andy Roberts wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

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

 PM>> In this day and age, I would reject _any_ file manager which
 PM>> doesn't handle archived files.

 JS> Me too.

 JS> OS2C claims to handle ZIP, ARJ and LHZ self-extracting archives,
 JS> and it does, perfectly.  Which other ones does FC/2 handle

 AR> --- Extract FC.INF --- 
 AR> File Commander/2 provides support for archive files (ZIP,
 AR> ARJ, LZH, RAR and ACE types are currently supported) that
 AR> makes these files behave in a similar way to normal
 AR> subdirectories.  

OS2C supports ALL archive file types, and does all the things you listed, but
it doesn't support ALL _self-extracting_ archive types, only ZIP (some
versions) arj, lhz and rar.

                                              Jack 
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