Alternative directory/file classes?

David Mitchell david.mitchell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 14:58:48 UTC 2007


Great work! I'm very excited to download the new stuff. I played
around with Rio and FileMan this week. I really like the style of the
messages in Rio.

On 3/22/07, Keith Hodges <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear fellow FileDirectory loathers!
>
> Just  quick update on the state of Rio, I am quite pleased with the way
> that things are working out, particularly some of the new stuff which
> includes:
>
> 1. A generic stream copyTo: stream function.
> 2. Simple read/writeStreams api.
> 3. Adaptor for transparently using gzip streams, using the same API in
> both binary/text modes.
> 4. A RioDirAdaptor API for moving Files and File Trees into Directories
> 5. A RioArchiveAdaptor providing the same API for moving Files and File
> Trees into Archives. (Zip / Tar - does anyone feel like implementing Tar
> support?)
> 6. MacOS support - With some help I got tests to be green on MacOS, as
> well asLinux.  I have not got a Windows box to work with at the moment.
>
> I have put some effort into some fairly comprehensive documentation
> which you can find here.
>
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5929
>
> Best Regards
>
> Keith
>
> p.s. still to do: Extracting files from archives, working with files on
> remote servers, and OSProcess 'use the OS' mode.
>
>
>
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