Re: VFS for afio

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Thorsten Steinbrenner wrote:

> Yes, I know. But that seems to work only for uncompressed ASCII afio
> archives (-Z option within afio). So I fired up vi and used Stas
> Maximov's ucpio script as a basis for my uafio script:
[snip]
> Yes, I know it's ugly... ;-) But it seems to work - at least a bit. It
> is possible to view a afio archive. It is also possible to copyout a
> file. But there are still two problems with that script:
>
> 1. It is not possible to view a file within the archive (F3 button).
>     What happens is that mc only shows part of the file?!? Why?

Perhaps the file length is reported incorrectly.

> 2. "uafio list" seems to produce correct output for mc. But still the
>      time always shows up as "00.00". Why?

I don't know.  It works for me properly with CVS mc.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin