Re: Opening aarchives as virtual folders.

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 3 May 2003, dani brody wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use a virtual file system in a little project of mine as I 
> am looking for an ability to open archives as virtual folders.
> I recall being able to do this in nautilus in gnome 1.x, but cant seem to 
> now.
> So basicly:
> 1) Is it possible to open archives as virtual folders in gnome-vfs 
> programatically?
> 2) How would such a thing be done, and how hard would itbe to extend it for 
> iso's etc.. (or are there already plugins for that?)
> 3) Is it possible to do this in nautilus?

This is sort of half-way implemented, but isn't reliable at the moment. It 
also currently needs you to "know" how such uris are constructed.

I hope that this will be better in the future.

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