FAR plugin (newbie)

[hcorey]

I know this has been posted before. Unfortunately, I have not been able to use FAR plugins either by going to options--packer dll (message states that the far wlx file is invalid) or by modifying the wincdm and far.ini files.
I am mostly interested in loading docfile.dll. Again, I apologize for bringing this topic up again. Thanks for any help.

[djk]

I have also get an error during installig the plugin for the first time but when I edited the far2wc.ini (copied to the same directory as far2wc.wcx) everything has installed ok via the packer configuration window.

In the far2wc.ini I've removed all the lines, I left only two:

[c:\totalcmd\Packer\Far\DocFile\DocFile.dll]
Extension=.msi.doc.xls

Than I created c:\totalcmd\Packer\Far\DocFile\ directory and copied all the files for DocFile.
After setting the above I've added the packer and associated it to .doc extension.

[hcorey]

Thank you. I can now load the plugin. Is there a method to use docfile to view ppt (powerpoint files)?

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 13-11-2003 07:06:34 +0000 djk wrote:

d> I have also get an error during installig the plugin for
d> the first time
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d> After setting the above I've added the packer and
d> associated it to .doc extension.

Doesn't work for me anyway - with INI editing, or without it just can't be accepted by Commander. I got the same "This is not a valid packer plugin!" error all the time under NT4 SP6a TC6.1.
Does Zvika read this forum, actually?! If yes - Zvika, it doesn't work.
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[Clo]

2hcorey
  Hi!
• *.ppt files can be read with XnView, if you can't display them with that plugin.
  Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[djk]

2Black Dog
Of course you try to associate far2wc.wcx with eg .doc extension (not DocFile.dll) ?

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[PackerPlugins]
doc=463,%Commander_path%\Packer\far2wc\far2wc.wcx

As I rememeber it also works correctly on WinNT but I can't check it now (I will tommorrow).

[Raymond]

far2wc works fine for me. Here is my far2wc.ini:

[D:\Totalcmd\wcx\Far2WC 1.3 beta\DocFile.dll]
Extension=.msi.doc.xls

[D:\Totalcmd\wcx\Far2WC 1.3 beta\Resource.dll]

BTW, the corresponding .LNG files MUST be there in far2wc folder.

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 19-01-2004 21:07:43 +0000 Raymond wrote:

R> BTW, the corresponding .LNG files MUST be there in far2wc
R> folder.

Yep, it was because of language file (?!), thank you :).[/face]

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 13-11-2003 20:30:19 +0000 hcorey wrote:

h> Is there a method to use docfile to view ppt (powerpoint
h> files)?

DocFile plugin author claims it can:

"DocFile Browser 1.02 - Browsing, viewing and changing contents of compound files: doc, xls, ppt, msi, chm."

Add ".ppt" to "Extension" section:

Extension=.doc.xls.ppt.msi.chm

Works fine with ".chm".[/face]

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]Well, far2wc doesn't support %COMMANDER_PATH% io own INI file - that's bad...[/face]

[Raymond]

thank you .

Glad to be helpful for you.

Works fine with ".chm".

Seems only works fine with CHM files here. I tried to open a PPT file, there's just

[5]DocumentSummaryInformation
[5]SummaryInformation
Current User
Pictures
PowerPoint Document

I can't view anything meaningful. Same as DOC and XLS files. What is this plugin practically for with these 2 kind of files?

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 19-01-2004 22:56:40 +0000 Raymond wrote:

R> I tried to open a PPT file, there's just

R> [5]DocumentSummaryInformation
R> [5]SummaryInformation
R> Current User
R> Pictures
R> PowerPoint Document

R> I can't view anything meaningful. Same as DOC and XLS files.

What are you expected to see, actually?

___________transmission_from_readme.txt___________

DocFile Browser allows browsing, viewing and changing contents of compound files.
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What is a COMPOUND FILE?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Compound file is a number of individual files bound together in one physical file. Some Microsoft's programs write data to compound files. The examples of programs that write data to compound files are the most of the MS Office programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

MSI (Installation package for Windows) and CHM (HTML Help) files also are compound files.

_______________end_of_transmission________________[/face]

[Raymond]

[face=courier]

What are you expected to see, actually?
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Well, something meaningful. For example view the contents of PPT file. Now I can view nothing but a mess. Or maybe those unpacked files (I just listed) have some special usage I don't know?