starkit meet zip file
This is just another wow feature. There are gems just waiting to be picked up in starkits, and here is one that I found while reading "./lib/vfs/zipvfs.tcl" You can do that by inspecting your new starkit.
Now I don't know what this feature is for exactly, but I do know how it can be used:
package require zipvfs set f [vfs::zip::Mount myzip.zip myzip.zip]
MHo 2020-11-25: should it be
package require vfs::zip
?
Now you can go into the myzip.zip directory (that is all emulated via tclvfs beautifully) and you can do all the regular things on files.
[ Vince adds this feature is there so that a starkit can access all currently supported vfs types, these include ftp, http, webdav and zip --- if you do run into problems with these (bugs definitely remain) please do diagnose and provide patches to fix them --- it's all pure Tcl code]
Wow your friends by unzipping without a zip program:
file copy myzip.zip unzip
My computer grinds for a bit then lookee lookee, I've uncompressed the zip file to an unzip/ dir.
Then unmount the file with:
vfs::zip::Unmount $f myzip.zip
And for the terminally curious:
# Used to execute a zip archive. This is rather like a jar file
# but simpler. We simply mount it and then source a toplevel
# file called 'main.tcl'.
proc vfs::zip::Execute {zipfile} {
etc...