Hi Richard, I just looked at your code and it is really nice. I always learn so much from your code.
Thanks again! John Balgenorth On Apr 20, 2015, at 5:37 PM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > Thanks Richard! > > I am working on a project that will be > doing some file zipping. It isn’t a full > blown zip program. It will just provide > the ability to zip a file in the process. > > It is impressive and nice to see very old > code works on current Macs. > > I jusst downloaded the code from you links > and will be looking at it. > > thanks again! > > John Balgenorth > > > On Apr 20, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > >> J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >>> On 4/20/2015 11:07 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>>> I made a drag-and-drop plugin for LC's gzip: >>>> <http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_gzipper.mc.gz> >>> >>> I've been using this a lot over the years, just because it's easier >>> than typing the command into the message box. But the copy I have >>> isn't drag and drop so I downloaded this one -- but it isn't either. >>> That'd be a nice touch. >>> >>> The scripts are locked so I couldn't look though. >> >> The scripts have been unlocked for many years, ever since I first released >> it as Public Domain back in 2002. >> >> The drag-n-drop worked on Mac last time I used it there a few weeks ago, but >> now that I'm spending more time on Linux I tested it in Ubuntu and it didn't >> work. Very old code, using very old syntax. >> >> I just made a quick update to it and posted both compressed and uncompressed >> copies, compatible with LC 5.5 and later: >> >> <http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_gzipper.livecode.gz> >> <http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_gzipper.livecode> >> >> >> John Balgenorth wrote: >> >>> A really good feature to have would >>> be the ability to zip a folder of files >>> and folders and a volume of a hard >>> drive. >> >> It's public domain, and there's not that much code there anyway - knock >> yourself out. :) >> >> I made it only because back in those days I was gzipping a lot of files for >> manually posting to servers. These days I tend to write publishing scripts >> that do the zipping and then upload with rync, so I don't use this much >> anymore. >> >> But it's nice to see at least Jacque finds it helpful, and if anyone's >> interested in using any part of that for a full-features >> compression/decompression tool it'd be good to see it. >> >> -- >> Richard Gaskin >> Fourth World Systems >> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
