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Compressed Folders with RAR and ACE support!


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Has anyone ever pondered over the fact that it might be possible to create a zipfldrs.dll replacement with unRAR and unACE support built in? That way we won't need to use WinRAR or WinACE in Windows XP, except for creating archives.

The decompression libraries for the formats are freely available.

- Aalaap

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and yeah, I think that would be sweet. Especially cause the newest winRar can open .iso files. You would be able to browse them just like a folder from within windows explorer.

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Originally posted by Dazzla

Especially cause the newest winRar can open .iso files. You would be able to browse them just like a folder from within windows explorer.

Daemon Tools lets you mount cd images as they were cds. Pretty useful tool, even considering it's freeware.

Regarding the idea of hacking the dll to include ace and rar commands I admit it's not bad, but I still prefer my registered version of WinRAR (even because anyway you'll need it to compress files).

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Originally posted by Fedr0

Daemon Tools lets you mount cd images as they were cds. Pretty useful tool, even considering it's freeware.

Regarding the idea of hacking the dll to include ace and rar commands I admit it's not bad, but I still prefer my registered version of WinRAR (even because anyway you'll need it to compress files).

Yeah, that daemon tools ability is built into OS X. About the second part, wouldn't you be able to go to right click - new - rar file, and have it done like that?

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Could come with a few ShellNew templates so you'll get a Right Click -> New -> RAR folder or ACE folder in addition to the Zip one.

But like I said, compression might probably be out of the question because those libraries aren't public domain. Of course if someone could hack the apps to get the code out, it'll be sweeter ;-)

I dunno much about VC++ programming, or I guess I could have tried my hand at this. Somehow. I should have read that C++ book instead of the VB one when i was a kid.

Why I think this is possible can be attributed to Cexx's fake CyDoor dll that has all the CyDoor functions interfaced in the dll, but they are empty :-) ! So if our zipfldrs.dll has a function zipfile::DoUnzipOperation() function, it could be modified to identify the type of the archive: if zip, use standard unzipping code; if rar, use code from rar libraries, and so on. If the flow is emulated correctly, we may get seamless integration of RAR and ACE in Windows XP :-). And possibly other formats via a "CCF Plugins"!

Wow, this sounds so much better than I originally thought.

- Aalaap

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Sounds good. Though quite a bit harder than you make it sound. :cheeky: zipfldr.dll is a standard COM server, but it could be hiding any number of interfaces under the covers.

Try posting in the programming forum; maybe someone will take this project on. I might even take this on myself, if I can find the time.

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