Spanning- Reg

[Afsal]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for a good product, my query is, currently i am using a demo version of vclzip and i selected a file(approx 7 MB) and asked to zip it with span mode( multimode=mmspan) on (sapnnsize=1024), but it creates only one file in my desktop,

Secondly I selected multimode=mmblock and zipped the same file, this time it created many files in my desktop with exrtension .001, .001....., But i could not unzip that files with winzip or winrar.

Please help me in this regard since spanning is necessary to me and also it should open in normal zip programs

Thanks

Afsal

[Kevin]

Afsal,

Spanning does not create blocks of a particular size, it writes until it runs out of room on whatever disk you tell it to write to, so if you span to your hard drive, it will only make one part. Blocksize is ignored when spanning. It is meant to be written directly to removable media.

When using mmBlocks, you do get blocks of the size you asked for and 1024 is very small indeed, only 1024 bytes or 1k per block.

When opening up a spanned archive, you should always open it up using the last block. Are you using VCLZip Lite or VCLZip Pro? Because VCLZip Pro should, by default, create files ending in .z01, .z02, etc. Also, the evaluation version of VCLZip Pro is still at 3.04. It does have some incompatibilities with WinZip, but 3.06, the latest registered version does have those cleared up.

Kevin

[Erick Phillipe]

Hi,
I testing a VCLZip Pro 3.06 and when I configure [multimode=mmspan] and select a HD for ZIP destine, the component call event for select a "First Disk". If I don't assign this event, the component send a your question about "First disco".

Why? How do I do for this message don't appear?

[Kevin]

The easiest way to NOT show the message is to define the OnGetNextDisk event but don't show a message in your event handler.

Kevin

[Steve]

Hi Kevin,

I'm working with VCLZIP Pro version 3.04 Build 1 and I wanted to use spanning via mmBlocks and already made some tests with it.
My problem is that I cannot open my (spanned) zipped files with WinZip. When I try it, a "Specify part location"-dialog pops up and I have to "Specify location for part 1 of the archive" ...
You wrote that with version 3.06 the incompatibilities with WinZip were cleared up. Does it also function with non-standard extensions ?
I use an own OnFileNameForSplitPart-event, so that my files are named (for example) FIBU0013.AZI, FIBU0013.AZI.A01, FIBU0013.AZI.A02 and so on ... is it also guaranteed in this case (own extensions), that I can open the files with WinZip or is it obligatory to use standard naming conventions for extensions ?

I hope you can help me and answer my question.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[Kevin]

VCLZip 3,06 definitely fixes a lot of WinZip incompatibilites, but I am not sure right off if WinZip requires the standard extentions but I think it does.

Kevin