ACDK Virtual Files Readme

ACDK Virtual Files (acdk_vfile)
acdk_vfile implements virtual file systems for zip and tar files, which can used as plugin for the ACDK File framework.

Content of this chapter:

   General
     Title
     Version
     Short Description
     Dependencies
     Namespaces
     Authors
     License
   Description
   Notes
   Todo
   Changes

General

Title

ACDK Virtual Files (acdk_vfile)

Version

Distribution version: 4.14.
Package version: 4.14.0.

Short Description

  acdk_vfile implements virtual file systems for
zip and tar files, which can used as plugin
for the ACDK File framework.

Dependencies

       ACDK Core

Namespaces

       acdk::vfile

Authors

      Roger Rene Kommer (kommer@artefaktur.com).

Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler (zlib)

License

      ACDK Free Edition License ( License).


and zlib licsence ( ZLIB license).

Description

acdk_vfile provides implements

virtual file systems for the

acdk::io::File fassade for transparent access to zip and tar files. Please refer to

acdk_vfile man for examples. The utility

acdk_vfile_file2rc transfer any binary data to a C-Struktur to link it to an application accessible via the

acdk::io::RessourceFileSystem. The little utility

acdk_vfile_convert is a ZIP and TAR unpacker, uses just as a little demo for the zip and tar file system plugin features. Another File plugin is available for FTP servers in the

acdk_net package.

Notes

  From the original ZLIB distribution I have changed the 
function declarations from the K&R style to the modern
ANSI style. This enables also C++ compiler to compile 
the code.

Todo

  Beta version.

Changes

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4.14.0
- make FileSystem plugin for tar and zip loadable via
	ClassLoader.
- Fix in parsing TAR headers (name was not truncated to right
	length.
- Fix in tar and zip file system: If a file is reference, which
	is not existant in zip/tar file return a file instance not
	Nil.
	
Please refer also to  ChangeLog.

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4.10.0
- Minor fixes.

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4.02.0
- Configuration and documentation fixes.

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4.01.1
- Ajustments to modified metainfo
- minor documentation changes.

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4.00.1
- Ajustments to Unicode and revised metainfo.


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2.00.1
Intial revision.