| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 8 Oct 2000 at 02:01:22 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: XADopus (was Re: ADF files) |
Hello Jonathan
On 27-Sep-00, Jonathan Hart wrote:
>> Even more good news, I've just got an email from Mladen this evening and
>> there's an even newer V1.2 been put on his site today.
>
> OK, just testing 1.2, and it is v.quick indeed, compared to even ArcDir.
> It's a nice efficient package (DOpus modules are so cool, the way they slot
> in without a reboot).
I've still not heard back from the author about the bug in V1.2 that doesn't
allow drag'n'drop unpacking, no doubt he's working on a new version.
For some odd reason I still find it very slow at unpacking, I've not been able
to trace why this is, even after using another hard drive to boot from that
has a bog standard OS3.5/DOpus5.82 installation. Something odd's going on as
we both have almost identicle hardware.
> The lack of a facility to add files to an archive is a bit of a downer
> though, as I use this a lot with lha and lzx archives. I wonder if it can
> be implemented? I'm not sure if I'll install it for good yet...but perhaps
> I could install it for all formats apart from lha/lzx and leave that to the
> venerable ArcDir.
>
> I found that it handles adf files with a big increase of speed over
> ArcHandlerEX (basically regular lister speed!), but fails with dms, you
> just get the empty lister.
>
> Another reason not to install it is that Dave has been real helpful with
> advice on this list asnd has supplied me with excellent actions for opening
> tar.gz and other crunched archive formats, and I don't know if I can set up
> the same actions using this DOpus Module. If I can do this and read dms,
> then I'll probably install it :)
The way i plan to use it, is for unpacking archives that don't have unpackers
already such as CAB files, and maybe DMS files as I like the way the XADOpus
module handles these.
for the moment I'm not going to use it on archives such as LhA and LZX for
which I already have filetypes setup to use either the original
packer/unpacker or a better/faster program.
Author: AmiNET - biz/dopus/Magnum_Opus31a.lha
Web site - http://www.magnumopus.co.uk
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