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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Drag and Drop Compression
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.195705.23746@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 19:57:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.234613.12909@waikato.ac.nz>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec19.234613.12909@waikato.ac.nz> harvey@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >Is anybody out there working on a drag and drop Compression/Decompression tool
- >at the moment.
- >What I had in mind was something like what I have used on an Archemides. An
- >icon on the desk top which you can drag file(s) on to and it will decompress
- >them for you or if they are not compressed it will compress them for you
- >perhaps with a prompt for the compression method, or else it would just select
- >the most approiate for the file type.
- >There is a lot of interest in a project like this, at least down under. So if
- >noone is presently working on one would someone like a little project?
-
- Someone created such a Workplace Shell object for the ZIP format. It
- should be making its way to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in the next week or two.
-
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