On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 04:25:00PM -0700, Steve Sabram wrote:
> Here's an idea. There has been talk of this but I haven't seen am implementation of
>this yet. One could write a compressor that
> would get multiple prc's and pdb's into one big self extracting prc. You would then
>only have one prc to beam over. Upon execution
> on the other Palm device, it would extract all the compressed databases and prc's
>you need in that format.
> In the Windows world, there are packages and self extracting ZIP files.
>Technically, an app like this is very possible on the
> Palm. Someone just needs to write it.
ZBoxZ :). Again. It has a RipUn* mode that takes a .zip file (yes, a
standard one you create on a desktop) and extracts everything. The
code to pipe it directly into the install routine isn't complete, but
all the infrastructure is there (it saves a list of unzipped files)
and the task is buried in my TODOs in the readme. Along with some
plans for an AutoUnZipMe type mode.
I use FileStream with DestructiveReadMode extensively. This is how I
do SyncUnZip and RUnZip without using too much extra space.
> Steve
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