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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: The Shoctor on October 14, 2005, 11:02:36 AM

Title: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive.
Post by: 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.

Title: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive.
Post by: The Shoctor on October 14, 2005, 02:34:39 PM

*bump*

Title: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive.
Post by: Pride on October 14, 2005, 04:35:48 PM

:headscratch:

Title: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive.
Post by: The Shoctor on October 19, 2005, 12:39:41 PM

*bump*
Any ideas?

Title: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive.
Post by: sully! 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 (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/subst.mspx) 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 ([url]http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/S332.aspx[/url])

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 ([url]http://www.petri.co.il/enable_compressed_folder_in_w2k.htm[/url]) )

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 ([url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/[/url])

Title: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive.
Post by: Pride on October 20, 2005, 07:05:30 AM

:nerd:

Title: Using an Archive as a Mounted Drive.
Post by: The Shoctor on October 20, 2005, 07:34:32 AM

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