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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Subject: Archive Viewer 1.33 (was Re: I guess there is no way to start zip/zoo from Icon)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.185701.21404@netcom.com>
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- References: <BxrKIM.LJ4@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <%c#@byu.edu> <1992Nov16.175622.20614@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:57:01 GMT
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- In <1992Nov16.175622.20614@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >There's a PM app called ArchiveViewer (version 1.33) which implements
- >a PM front end (at least for viewing, I think). It is available via
- >anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-
- Hmm, I have to comment at this point: I looked at this program, and it
- is *really* wierd! The author(s) seem to have used the wrong system
- calls for implementing menus, resulting in a system that is almost
- counter-intuitive. The "menus" are disguised as settings. There's
- other quirks to (no _easy_ way to specify the extract directory, can't
- handle spaces in dir/file names, etc.). All in all, I have to judge
- this program as not-ready-for-prime-time. I'm still using the
- command-line to view/extract/create archives.
-
- Hmm, maybe I should cross-post this to comp.os.os2.apps.reviews. :-)
- Seriously, I've set the follow-up line to c.o.o.apps, since this is a
- discussion of an OS/2 app now.
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