[ProgSoc] Delphi RAR interface

[Jay Banyer <jay@nospam.vma.tabnsw.com.au>]

Hey all,

Been toying with the idea of creating a GUI for the MS-DOS archiver RAR.
Something along the lines of Winzip, programmed in Delphi 2 - Win95. (I
know that WinRAR already exists; I'd mainly be doing it for the
intellectual exercise.)

Anyway, being unexperienced in programming in a windows/dos environment,
I'm not sure of the best way to go about it. I thought I'd use the
existing RAR.EXE, and just stick a gui over the top to control it.

If I do this, I need to pass information from RAR to my program, eg
archive listings. The only way I can think of is to execute RAR with a
redirection to a temporary file, then read in the file, then delete it.
This seems like a bit of a fudge, does anyone know a better way?

A friend suggested learning the RAR archive format and creating the
listing myself, which seems fair, but probably too much work atm.

Any other suggestions regarding this project would be appreciated.

Thanks,

j.

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