On Mon, 9 Jul 01 18:03:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Schwartz) wrote:
>> nor can I figure out why you want PKUNZIP to automatically unZIP files
>> as they are downloaded
> I find it a handy trick, when downloading a zipped file to define zip
> as a MIME type and/or as a download option, in such a way that the
> browser runs a zip utility like zview or aview, instead of zip itself.
> The result is that I can see each file in the zip file, can view
> the text in any of these files if desired, and can download all or
> some of the files to a dos directory of my choice. Indeed, aview
> also offers the option of an automatic virus scan before downloading
> any of these files.
> This strategy works with most browsers. Maybe others will find it
> handy too.
Arachne/Pkunzip can view what's inside of ZIPs.
(also RARs and ARJs)
--- clipped from mime.cfg ---
application/zip >TXT|[300]PKUNZIP -v $1>$2
application/x-zip >TXT|[300]PKUNZIP -v $1>$2
application/x-zipped >TXT|[300]PKUNZIP -v $1>$2
application/rar >TXT|@c:\\unrar\\unrar.exe v $1>$2
application/arj >TXT|[300]UNARJ l $1>$2
file/.zip >TXT|[300]PKUNZIP -v $1>$2
file/.rar >TXT|@c:\\unrar\\unrar.exe v $1>$2
file/.arj >TXT|[300]UNARJ l $1>$2
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And F-prot could do the scanning for virii.
(here's the command line to do it without first "unzipping" the file)
c:\fprot\f-prot %1 /ARCHIVE /PACKED /COLLECT /BEEP /NOHEUR /DUMB
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