Date   : Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:03:31 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Finding file information from .zips

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Andy Ford wrote:
> Basically, if you grab a .zip containing a few files and then extract
> the .zip on Windows, although the files are present attempting to add
> them to either ADFS / DFS explorer or BBC explorer, there is no
> information (load and exec addresses etc)
 
Well, where do you expect a filing system that does not understand
load and exec addresses to put load and exec addresses? Extract it
on a platform that does understand load and exec addresses, RISC OS
or BBC.
 
It would be useful if application on other platforms that
manipulate BBC disk images (I'm looking at you DFS/ADFS Explorer)
were capable of taking Acorn metadata from zip files. It's been in
the documented zipfile format for almost 20 years now, see
http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Archivers/Zip/ExtraField
 
> While I'm here, JGH's excellent patched WFSInit is present in that
> second .zip file. One is called WFSInit and the other is WFSInitFull ,
> which one do I use for "large" (formatted with ADFS to 500 mb or so)
> drives please ?
 
Either really, but only WFSInit will work. WFSInitFull is the
uncrunched version of WFSInit and consequently will run out of
memory incredibly instantly if you try to actually run it.
 
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