Sharing Stacks

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Wieder wrote:

 > [-hh] <hh at ...> writes:
 >
 >> zipContainer is a "utility"-stack (I uploaded yesterday) that
 >> sets a zip as property of a stack, for uploading as stack.
 >
 > Ah. OK - got it. That's clever.
 > As an enhancement request, how about the ability to display
 > text or README.md files before unzipping?

A while back I started work on a pair of functions that use a stack file 
as a container for files compressed using LC's built-in gzip, storing 
things in a property set rather than a single property since of course 
gzip only handles single files.  The advantage over Zip is minor, merely 
eliminating the need for an external.  But it was simple enough that it 
seemed a good idea at the time.

I got sidetracked while I was working on it and haven't been able to 
justify finishing it because I had no immediate use case for it and it 
didn't seem the sort of thing others would need.

But if others would find it useful I could finish it.

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  Richard Gaskin
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