[delphizip] Re: Handling CDRW packet drives
- From: "Russell Peters" <russellpeters@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 06:58:10 +1100
from my reading of the 'recommendations' it should but have not as yet
checked (I have a horrible feeling that it also will split headers, though
not the individual parts).
I am trying to change WriteSpan to save any zip file spanned - at the moment
it relies on the target being the same as the ZipMaster.ZipFilename.
Russell Peters
http://www.users.bigpond.com/russellpeters/delphizip.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Turner" <james.d.h.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:42 PM
Subject: [delphizip] Re: Handling CDRW packet drives
>
> Having considered the problem a little further, I think that my suggestion
> of creating a function to return DRIVE_REMOVABLE for CDRW (packet) drives
> may be an oversimplification. I imagine there may be issues with
formatting.
> Therefore, with such drives, erase rather than format would probably have
to
> be used.
>
> On a different subject, some time ago I wrote some code to create a
spanned
> archive from a single zip file (though I don't use it yet). In my version,
I
> decided that the central directory should be contained entirely on the
final
> disk (i.e. start a new disk if there isn't enough room). Does ZipMaster
> behave in the same way?
>
> -- James Turner
> www.skaro.net
>
> PS
> Perhaps when creating spanned archives, to avoid errors, at least one
> cluster should always be left empty on each disk.
>
>
>
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