On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:35:13PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > Question:
> > is the password dialog generic enough to open password protected zip
> > files? (i know that currently abiword uses gzip, but im talking about if
> > and when abiword uses zip or gets a filter for Open Office)
>
> I assume so, but IMHO this is a really bad idea. While what I hear
in my previous mail i pointed out that using an external program for
crypto was wiser, so i know its a bad idea.
At the back of my mind is the idea that a program or office suite that is
required to support several compression formats may as well be tweaked to
provide me with the engine i need to extract (or even compress) any
archives,
perhaps by adding an option to the shell context menu... (right click choose extract
etc ...)
of course on *nix this is not as useful as windows which is shipped without so much as
a command line zip
program.
