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Ann: 2 new and 1 updated plugins on ghisler.com

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New plugins on www.ghisler.com :
File system:
- Services: Show and manage Windows 2000/XP services
Lister:
- hpg-ed: Viewer AND Editor with syntax highlighting support for lister

Thanks very much to the plugin authors! :D

Updated plugin:
- Diskdir: Create simple file catalogs. Fixed: Disk full crash when unpacking, use plugin with 'search' - 'feed to listbox' function.
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Have you plans to add a unicode support for DiskDir plugin?
It is a most requested feature for DiskDir Extended but it doesn't have updates for a long time.

I also think there is a need for official DiskDir plugin thread on the forum to post some bugreports like that in it.
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Unfortunately this would make list files incompatible with older versions. :(
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Req: DiskDir's list as sparsed files on real NTFS

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I suggest to add a feature that will add Unicode support and more other features without breaking compatibility with older plugin versions dependent of LST ansi format.

So the suggestion is to add ablilty to make file lists by making 0-byte or small (DiskDir own signature + some additional info about file + zeros) sparsed files on real NTFS filesystem, while also having ability to easy view original's file sizes, attributes, etc.
Such "lists" can be accessed even from Explorer, and also give much more possibilities to view and do other work with them transparently using TS's Sync Dirs tool.

My view of possible feature list:
1. in Alt+F5 pack interface, in DiskDir plugin properties allow to make zero small (sign+info+zeros) sparsed files with the same size as packed. The files with DiskDir's signature will have advantages for operations with SyncDirs; also such files can be easily found using apps like TrID; LS or FS plugin could show (Lister one also edit) file info stored between signature and zeros.
2. Except for size, to sparsed from original other attributes, NTFS rights, file streams may be copied (for streams could be added option to make them empty).
3. An option to copy some files or their NTFS streams instead of making sparsed (or empty streams) "clones", useful to store info from descript.ion, desktop.ini, etc. and small NTFS Streams (they may store comments and some other info about file).
4. An option to make NTFS links for our sparsed files/folders that has targen only inside the file list (but not those that links to somethig outside, suchsafey matters do avoid damaging of files pointed by relative links, links to standard system paths etc.)
5. All the information about original file that can't be stored inside target sparesd file on NTFS due to NTFS or Windows limitations, can be stored inside our sparsed file between DiskDir's signature and following zeros. The obvious case here is the information that original file had sparesed attribute.
6. SyncDir's TC tool can recognize such files and by default to disable copy and move to target actions for them (unless target is also has such sign).
7. In SyncDir, there could be an option to compare sparsed "clones" file properties with target file's ones. Maybe it can be imlemented with activation of "by content" setting, or using special WDX or pseudo-WDX (built-in) plugin...
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