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Subject: Walnut Creek cdroms.
From: riku.saikkonen@compart.fi (Riku Saikkonen)
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Date: Sun,  9 Jan 94 19:15:00 +0200
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PH>Walnut Creek CDROM located in california.  CDroms offered by this company
PH>such as Simtel, Cica, Gigagames, Gutenberg, and etc..  all contain a simple
PH>file browser called "VIEW" that allows one to unzip and copy files from
PH>these cdroms to the hard disk.  I am curious to know what people think of
PH>this program.  What features offered in this browser do people like,
PH>or dislike?  What improvements would people like to see?  How intuitive
PH>are the commands?  Is the program convenient to use?  What other options
PH>not currently offered would users like to have?

I like it. Fast and simple, just what I need. The best thing is perhaps
the automatic exit in the right directory after decompressing something.

Something I'd like more in it would be a ZIPped-text-file viewer feature
(i.e. view a text file inside a ZIP; decompressing it to a temp file,
viewing that and deleting the temp file). Of course, it needs some
coding; a ZIP file browser too... Something else: a search facility that
could extract a list of all files whose descriptions match a
regexp/something search - and then act on the list as if it were just a
directory on the CD-ROM. Rather like (MS-DOS) 'type index.txt | find
"abcdefg"'.

To me, one of the best things in the Walnut Creek CD-ROM series has been
the 4DOS descript.ion:s (I'm so used to the command line that I usually
prefer doing my searches and extractions there).

-=- Rjs -=- riku.saikkonen@compart.fi
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