Re: HardPressed (was Re: AutoArk)

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:

>In article <1993Jan15.022736.6772@nuscc.nus.sg> ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:
>>: The only way to work around it at all is to trap things like finderSays
>>: messages before files are launched... otherwise it would try to launch the
>>: compressed file, and fail.  I have *no* dependencies on the Finder...

Catching findersays messages sounds like a really bad idea because I, for one,
hate the Finder (and therefore don't use it). I would have no way to launch
compressed programs!

>If you double click on a compressed picture file, it will faithfully launch
>the application and be uncompressed.  You wouldn't even know that it WAS
>compressed if HP didn't tell you.  HardPressed doesn't intercept the Finder's
>messages because it doesn't NEED to intercept them; everything works the way
>you would intuitively expect it to.

Does it work by patching GS/OS Read and Write calls (and GetFileInfo calls) so
that they change they information? (ie read reads and unpacks, write packs and
writes and getinfo gets info of the packed file inside)

>>It's good. BTW, can HP works with compressed file while in ProDOS 8? AA can't.

I have a feeling that would be extremely difficult.

>Nope.  HP is GS/OS only, same as AA.  Providing a reasonable level of P8
>support is not easy.  There are too many utilities which do direct block

Thought so :)

>fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
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