Randall R Schulz schreef:
On Friday 29 August 2008 16:50, John Andersen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Randall R Schulz
wrote: Hi,
Does anyone know if there's a Linux counterpart to the Windows ability to treat Zip files as if they're just directories, ... Others have provided answers on this thread, I just wanted to ask a question:
Are you sure Vista provides this as transparently as you are requesting for Linux?
I've never used Vista, nor did I mention it. I only said "Windows."
As far as I know, the feature first appeared in Windows XP. Or perhaps 2000, but it doesn't matter. Those versions are no longer sold via regular channels, and Vista is the only version for desktops in the shops. But the majority of Windows installations is WinXP. The zip folders feature in Windows is controlled by zipfldr.dll. This dll is called by the explorer shell. The command prompt does not call the explorer shell, nor does it call zipfldr.dll. So that means no zip folders in the cmd prompt. Actually, windows zip folders is a lot like kio slaves, or packer plugins (wcx) in Total Commander, or whatever it is that Midnight Commander does. However Windows does also have something that can be compared to FUSE: Installable File Systems or IFS. Originally it came from OS/2... In recent Windows versions, Microsoft has moved support for FAT out of the kernel and into an IFS. Only NTFS remains in the kernel. ISO9660, Joliet, SMB/CIFS,... are all IFS. There are even a few IFS drivers not developed by Microsoft, some of you may know the Ext2fs IFS driver, with read/write support for ext2/3 in Windows.
Nonetheless, I don't recall the extent of this capability, but would we be surprised if Linux did it better?
I don't know enough about FUSE and IFS to compare, but I would think it's difficult to give a "better" label. -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org