Re: Possible mistake, but maybe not...

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <sav it efp com ua>]

Mariusz Jedrzejewski wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm newbie at this list, and I've seen at archive, but doesn't find any answer
> for my problem.
>
> The problem is below:
> 1) I have any archive, eg. zip archive, archive contains one file: a.zip
> contains a.txt
> 2) When I explore this a.zip in MC, I see a file a.txt in panel
> 3) I'm looking at this a.txt with F3, I see anything.
> 4) At the same moment, in $TMP we have uncompressed a.txt with various name,
> like ext???????
> 5) Now, the archive include CHANGED a.txt, but name of archive is still
> a.zip
> 6) I'm explore a.zip, see a.txt
> 7) Looking at a.txt, see *previous* version of file, readed from
> $TMP/ext??????
> 8) But file was changed! I want to see actual version of file, nor unpacked
> previously to $TMP!
> 9) Also, when I delete a file from $TMP, and wants to see a.txt in archive, I
> see beautiful "input/output error", because in $TMP we haven't a ext??????
> 10) After restart MC, everythink is ok.
>
> So, why MC (or something in it) don't read actual version of archive? It may
> change, and I'm in trouble thinking that view of file is correct.

Please, read "Virtual FS" section in mc manual.

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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov.