Best way to use WinACE within TC?

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 12-09-2003 14:06:39 +0000 Hacker wrote:

H> For the time being you can press Esc...

...or press that [x] in the right upper corner. "Alt"+"F4" works too ;).[/face]

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 12-09-2003 03:53:55 +0000 DRP535 wrote:

D> Any chance of fixing the little "bytes vs kilobytes" bug
D> in the window that asks to specify what size volumes to
D> make when creating multi-volume archives as well at the
D> same time?

This is description of "-v" parameter from ACE.TXT (ACE32.EXE v.2.04):

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v<size> - Set volume size creates multi-volume archive;
sets volume size to <size>*1000 bytes

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You see, no suffixes to switch bytes/kbytes. So what exactly you want to be changed?[/face]

[DRP535]

[face=courier]On 12-09-2003 03:53:55 +0000 DRP535 wrote:

D> Any chance of fixing the little "bytes vs kilobytes" bug
D> in the window that asks to specify what size volumes to
D> make when creating multi-volume archives as well at the
D> same time?

This is description of "-v" parameter from ACE.TXT (ACE32.EXE v.2.04):

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v<size> - Set volume size creates multi-volume archive;
sets volume size to <size>*1000 bytes

______________end_of_transmission________________

You see, no suffixes to switch bytes/kbytes. So what exactly you want to be changed?[/face]

When you go to create a multi-volume archive with TC, the window that pops up says "Please enter the size of each archive in bytes". That is wrong. It is wrong for both RAR and ACE.

With both RAR and ACE the number which must be entered in this window is the number of bytes / 1024 (despite what the ace.txt file says about *1000)

I used to backup my HDD by creating both ACE and RAR archives of critical software. I used to create multi-volume archives which were sized to 702MB for fitting on CD. Whether it was ACE or RAR being used, the number I had to put in TC's multi-volume archive size window was always 718848. 702 * 1024 = 718848

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 14-09-2003 03:24:47 +0000 DRP535 wrote:

D> When you go to create a multi-volume archive with TC, the
D> window that pops up says "Please enter the size of each
D> archive in bytes". That is wrong. It is wrong for both
D> RAR and ACE.

As I told, you can easily fix it yourself. So I can't see the problem.

D> With both RAR and ACE the number which must be entered in
D> this window is the number of bytes / 1024 (despite what
D> the ace.txt file says about *1000)

Yep, TC uses "k" suffix, and what exactly uses ACE I really don't know (and actually don't want to %) - that example just shows you that it's impossible to give ACE size in bites.

D> Whether it was ACE or RAR being used, the number I had to
D> put in TC's multi-volume archive size window was always
D> 718848.

You can use "m" suffix with RAR.[/face]

[Hacker]

As I told, you can easily fix it yourself. So I can't see the problem.

But that doesn't fix the bug for all the others...

Roman

[petergus]

TC 6.0 will switch the parameters by itself, so the problem should be solved without this tool.

Will TC 6 still be using -SFX parameter instead of -SFX32?

//Peter

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 16-09-2003 15:44:32 +0000 Hacker wrote:

H> But that doesn't fix the bug for all the others...

If I can do it, anyone can do it, Jedi - this is the way I think and act %).[/face]