Hello Ian
On 13-Jun-00, you wrote:
> Hmm.. I'm not sure I follow you entirely here, but yes, it can be
> tedious making directory structures if they're complex. What I do to
> make archives is create or copy the whole structure and all the files
> in a temporary place on my HDD or in RAM: and then archive the whole
> lot in one go. The archive program will retain the directory
> structure.
Granted.
You are pretty well covering what I was meaning.
> The point of this is that its a lot easier to move or rename stuff on
> disk, and you can create algorithmic CLI or REXX scripts if you want
> dozens of directories (a thru z, perhaps?) and so on.
Not quite. It was just I was sending a few different versions of a file.
So I wanted a structure like this:
ROOT:
+-- DIR1
|
+-- DIR2
But making those two dirs is painful and tedious.
> Alternatively, DOpus Mag2 contains a facility to treat an archive as a
> disk directory for read or write. I believe there is something similar
> on Aminet too.
I have that. I may look at that. Though I do like XARC for some things.
Opus/Magellan falls down sometimes where I think XARC doesn't.
> Like I said, I didn't quite follow your query, so if thats all a load
> of irrelevant twaddle..... :-)
No, appreciated.
Regards
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Andrew Bruno
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