Quite a number of applications store their files in a ZIPped container format. Microsofts DOCX, XLSX etc are examples, most other use the OCF, the Open Container Format, also known as OEBPS Container Format in the specification for E-Books in the ePUB format, also Java's .jar archives, Open Document, compressed MusicXML and others. For ePUB the description is here.
Using ALT-F6 or the icon in header of the FreeCommander Window, I can extract the contents of those files, but I want more.
I want to be able to open those ZIPped archives as a directory, without having to rename that archive to the extension ZIP.
So that when pressing ENTER, the application is started with this file as command line parameter, but when pressing CTRL-ENTER, it is being opened as directory, just like a file with extension ZIP on pressing ENTER (ALT-ENTER and SHIFT-ENTER are already assigned to other funtions — see FILE menu).
I work a lot with EPUB-Files, and having to rename the file repeatedly beween extensions ZIP and EPUB is quite a hassle.
Another request concerns the icon and ALT-F5 for compressing files to an archive. While FreeCommander unZIPs the EPUB files without having changed the file name extension to ZIP, I would like to be able to specify the file name extension in the dialogue which is being opened to EPUB instead of ZIP, so that I do not have to rename the resulting ZIP file to an EPUB file (footnote: the EPUB-standard says that the extension "epub" should be written in lower case letters).
Actually I can change the file name extension in the file compression dialogue, but FreeCommander does not respect my change and writes it as ZIP anyway.
Thanks for your attention!
Better handling of ZIPped application file formats
Re: Better handling of ZIPped application file formats
Oops — i've just noticed that CTRL-ENTER does move the file name into the command line window.
But apparently CTRL-ALT-ENTER seems to be free for the new function suggested in my intial contribution.
But apparently CTRL-ALT-ENTER seems to be free for the new function suggested in my intial contribution.
Re: Better handling of ZIPped application file formats
With Ctrl+PageDown you can open any file (with any extension) as archive.
Re: Better handling of ZIPped application file formats
This shortcut is customizable, so you can assign any.
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