Large Scripts Run too Slowly

[JB]

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 <sundown at 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 <ambassador at 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
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