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- MacCPIO by Vince Paragano
- © 1994, Vince Paragano
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-
- INTRO
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- MacCPIO v0.2 is my first submission to Info-Mac ever. I've been learning
- Mac programming in my spare time because I have always loved the machine and
- was never lucky enough to do so at school or at work. Any way, here goes...
-
- OVERVIEW
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- MacCPIO is a quick and dirty CPIO archive creator utility. The intent was
- to write a program for the Mac with a Mac "look and feel" that would
- generate a CPIO archive which could then be uncompacted on a Unix machine.
- The inspiration behind this was things like SunTAR and the fact that I wanted
- to do this at work for archiving lots of Mac source code in a Unix format.
- Mostly however, I must confess that it seemed like a nifty little project to
- use as a learning example in Mac programming.
-
- MacCPIO archives are made by adding one one file at a time chosen from the
- standard Mac "Open File" dialog box. As it's selected, each file is both
- added to the growing CPIO archive and added to a scrolling list of files.
- The main window's title always shows the current archive's name and size.
- Before any files can be added, a new CPIO archive must be created. Once
- all files have been added, the archive is closed. All three of the above
- choices are selected from the program's only menu, File.
-
- LIMITATIONS
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- I admit it's cumbersome adding files (one at a time) to the archive right now
- but I haven't had time for a custom dialog box. Also, it would be nice to add
- an entire folder to the archive and have all the files/sub-folders in the folder
- come along for the ride for free - maybe some day in future releases. Of course,
- Drag and Drop would also be great!
-
- Currently, MacCPIO also handles up to 128 files in the archive. This is just
- a hard-coded limitation on my part for now. It can be lifted/raised if this
- utility is useful.
-
- AUTHOR
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- Please feel free to contact me with ideas for improvement or sample code
- to do some of the enhancements mentioned. If there is interest, I can also
- post the source code to MacCPIO. I can be reached at:
-
- Vince Paragano
- vparagano@vaxserv.sarnoff.com
- vince_paragano@maca.sarnoff.com
- (609) 734-2580