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- From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: I guess there is no way to start zip/zoo from Icon
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.104315.954@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:43:15 GMT
- References: <BxrKIM.LJ4@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA
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- In article <BxrKIM.LJ4@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
- >
- > As these programs require command line parameters and opitons. I was
- > trying to import these onto my desk top to cut short the Path and DPath
- > variables. Is there any PM interface available for any of the archivers?
- >
- > --nasir
- > umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca
-
- Actually this depends on what you are trying to accomplish. I've got a
- directory called \download that I use for all my downloaded files that I'm
- going to be checking out. My standard operation is to then unzip, unzoo, unlh,
- etc to my \tmp directory and check out the package I've received.
-
- Inside the folder for \download in the drives object I've created objects for
- each of the un-archivers with a working directory of \tmp and the appropriate
- parameter to do the unpack. So now all that I do is drag the archive file onto
- the appropriate object and away it goes. Once I take the time to learn a bit
- about REXX I'll make a single script that will use the file extention to tell
- which of the archive packages to use and have a single un-archive object listed
- in my download directory.
-
- Then it'll be a quick drag and drop for whatever I want to explode. Actually I
- should probably add an archive view while I'm at it. :)
-
- Ken
-
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