Author Topic: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive. (Read 1337 times)

The Shoctor · « **on:** October 14, 2005, 11:02:36 AM »

Anyone know of something that can do this? I want to take a 7z I have and mount it like I would an ISO. I am shocked that I have been unable to find something to do this. This software would save me a TON of space seeing as the compressed files are very large once they are let loose.

The Shoctor · « **Reply #1 on:** October 14, 2005, 02:34:39 PM »

*bump*

Pride · « **Reply #2 on:** October 14, 2005, 04:35:48 PM »

The Shoctor · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2005, 12:39:41 PM »

*bump*
Any ideas?

sully! · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2005, 12:08:33 AM »

The best I could find....found over on http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t43795.html. This was in response to granting transparent filesystem access to .7z files. If you can get this far, you could use the subst command or create a shortcut.

Quote from: "MSFN Forums"

CLSID for .CAB files in W2k: {0CD7A5C0-9F37-11CE-AE65-08002B2E1262}
CLSID for .ZIP files in WXP/w2k3: {E88DCCE0-B7B3-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31}

Extending the Windows Explorer with Name Space Extensions

With this method and since 7-Zip is Open Source it should be possible to integrate a 7zipview.dll/7zip.dll instead of cabview.dll/cabinet.dll and zipfldr.dll/dzip.dll/dzip32.dll/dunzip.dll/dunzip32.dll ( Enable compressed folder in w2k )

Very good idea thumbup.gif

Maybe one of the developers of 7-zip will write the necessary DLLs?
-> Let's put a feature request on Sourceforge Project 7-Zip

Pride · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2005, 07:05:30 AM »

The Shoctor · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2005, 07:34:32 AM »

Well, it looks like something will eventually come of this...