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Sure you only will need the first one containing mime types and info(icons are optional)

wow; I've rewritten xFileMount, it wasn't gzipping files in some cases.

I Googled about mime & read your dotpup.sh file & can't make sense of it.
Reading the dotpup.sh files made by MU's DotPup maker is always a chore.

Anyway... I thought to just merge your files & dotpup.sh with mine, which should work.
But I decided to ask if you have any advice for doing this.

sunburnt wrote:wow; I've rewritten xFileMount, it wasn't gzipping files in some cases.

I Googled about mime & read your dotpup.sh file & can't make sense of it.
Reading the dotpup.sh files made by MU's DotPup maker is always a chore.

Anyway... I thought to just merge your files & dotpup.sh with mine, which should work.
But I decided to ask if you have any advice for doing this.

Yes, it was made with MU's DotPupWizard, but you dont need the dotpup.sh from it, unzip my dotpup and extract "FILESYSTEM.tbz" and leave the rest, just add the files on FILESYSTEM.tbz to your dotpup. Alternatively you can download any dotpup packed by GuestToo and examine his dotpup.sh

Thanks wow, I made a new DotPup & updated the download post.

I still don't quite grasp all the workings of the whole MIME thing.
I'll have to search for a tutorial as my Linux book is worthless.

### P.S.
The LongHorn icons are great!
How to set the icons system wide for file extention types?
I ask because Puppy 110 is being talked about in another post & this'd really jazz it up!

If you want to add more extensions(e.g. .img) open the file "/root/Choices/MIME-info/xfilemount" with leafpad/geany: Then add these lines: And save the file. Now go to "/root/Choices/MIME-types/" and create a new file "xfilemount_img"(or copy xfilemount_<something> to xfilemount_img) open that with a text editor and specify an action if you want.

To use the new types restart X or Re-read mime-types from Rox options.

Thanks wow, I'd looked at that & figured thats how to add new types to apps.

My Q really was how to set the icons in the ROX file browser for file extention types.
Like you did with your addon to xfilemount, so file types in ROX have different icons.
I know I can set the icon for each individual file with the ROX utility,
but I wanted to set an icon for each file type: .iso, .sfs, & etc. like you did.

Thus making ROX more like the Win. file browser for the new Puppy 110.

Thanks for your help with this... Terry

Oh , that's easy. Example for .img: once you have the new mime type right click on its icon, choose "Set icon", select "Only for the type" and drag an icon. The new icon will be placed at "/root/Choices/MIME-icons/"




You can see all the mime types for rox 1.x in this file: "/usr/local/share/Choices/MIME-info/Standard" but don't worry about that because is an old version and will be replaced in Puppy-2.13 with a new version of ROX-Filer.

Dumb question time...
Files are mounted as 'read only' is this correct or do I need to do anything?

regression 2.2 puppy

Working fine...nice addon

mike

Hi mikeb; It depends on what file type your mounting.

Squash files: ".fs" & ".sfs" ALWAYS mount as read-only.
To change a Squash file, a new one must be made.

All the other image file types mount as read-write (or they should).
This means you can write to them, but image files are made a given size,
so you can't add to them past the amount of free space in the image file.


xFileMount is a file mounter only, PizzasGood's file mounters may make
a new image file that's larger as is needed because you've added to the
image file, thus forcing a new larger one in size to be made.
I've made utilities that make new larger or smaller image files, but
I haven't posted them except in a few cases where folks asked for them.

Ok thanks for the explanation...all has become clear

I had been using the Edit-sfs.pup and was looking to tinker with a .fs file...
Mount...extract...alter...rebuild externally is the way in this case

many thanks

mike

I wrote a GUI utility for making new Squash files as I'm sure many have,
but then Puppy should have tools like this as they've very small & useful.

The remaster scripts (there's quite a few) make new Squash & Gzip images.
Alot of the time apps. added to the big Squash file need config files in /etc,
which is in the Gzip file (initrd.gz = Puppy2) or (image.gz = Puppy1).
Also the WindowManager menus are in /root in the Gzip image file.

These scripts make it easy, just setup Puppy how you want it & remaster.
Puppy runs so many different ways, the scripts remaster just a few of them.

is there any chance to teach this application to work with tar.gz files ?

Hi lederlunge; Puppy has a Gzip app., but I find half the time that it doesn't work.
Yes GZip & Tar functions could be added to it, I thought about that,
but they don't really perform file mounting as such, so I didn't include it.

I'm in the process of adding some new capabilities to xfilemount, so I'll
keep compression formats in mind for upgrading it to a multi use app.

Sunburnt...

Thanks for this utility - I find it very useful.

i have not understood how to make a *.tar.gz file with Gzip.

thanx anyway

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kleung21; Thanks... Nice to hear about one's efforts being useful to others!


lederlunge; Here's some code snips for Tar & Gzip from my collection:

### To extract files from a tar + gzip archives, ".tar.gz" & ".tgz".
gunzip < (file.tar.gz) | tar xvf -
gunzip < (file.tgz) | tar xvf -

### To compress files to a tar + gzip archive, do BOTH lines: tar then gzip.
tar -cvf (newFileName.tar) (Path&Files)
gzip -9 (newFileName.tar)

### To tar files & to untar files, cf = compress files & xf = extract files.
tar -cvf (newfile.tar) (path & files)
tar -xf (path & file.tar)

### To extract Gzip files, use gunzip
gunzip (file.gz)


All of these are typed into Xterm, while in the file's dir.

You can add a -z tag to the tar command and it does the gunzip part automatically:
tar -zxf file.tar.gz

PizzasGood; I assume that this compression command wouldn't work?

tar -zcf file.tar

Use the built-in man help files If not included, See the list , right side of Page

It does work... except the correct command line would be:

tar -zcf FileName.tar.gz *