Work being done at the File Creation Interface of Cabinet.DLL

[Gerold J. Wucherpfennig]

I just want to let you know that I'm working at the FCI functions of
CABINET.DLL. I had a look at this a few years ago, but gave up soon.
Two weeks ago I made a new attempt and next weekend I should
be able I post a patch which implements all FCI functions and
will work with spanning cabinets. Real file compression will not be
implemented at that point of time as I still have to write missing parts
and complete error handling first. This work took me longer than
expected so let's see if I can adhere to my schedule.

Regards,
Gerold

[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 21 May 2005 13:01:47 +0200, Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
> I just want to let you know that I'm working at the FCI functions of
> CABINET.DLL

Woohoo! Go Gerold! Let us know how it goes, maybe use a Wiki page if the
work is going to take a long time.

thanks -mike

[Gerold J. Wucherpfennig]

On Saturday 21 May 2005 13:19, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Sat, 21 May 2005 13:01:47 +0200, Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
> > I just want to let you know that I'm working at the FCI functions of
> > CABINET.DLL
>
> Woohoo! Go Gerold! Let us know how it goes, maybe use a Wiki page if the
> work is going to take a long time.
>
> thanks -mike

I don't know if it's worth a WIKI page. Those of you who want to know how far
I've progressed or better how much has to be done yet, here is a short
summary:


There is still some work to be done:

- only support for little endian machines
- the ERF error structure aren't used on error
- no real compression yet
- unknown behavoir if files>4GB or cabinet >4GB
- incorrect status information

There are bugs to be fixed in conjunction with spanning cabinets:

- set special iFolder values at spanned folders correctly
- don't save all CFFILE sections on a spanning folder,
  but only the spanned ones
- on split CFDATA sections: set number of uncompressed bytes correctly
- on spanning folders the last call to FCIAddFile should call some
  code which curently seems to be called later (when FCIFlushCabinet is 
called)