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Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6

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On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 14:05:06 -0700
aminer <aminer@toto.net> wrote:
> On 6/1/2014 9:35 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.programming.]
> > On 2014-06-01, aminer <aminer@toto.net> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have just finished to port my Parallel archiver to Delphi XE-XE6,
> >> there is two files to download , one file called parchiver.zip and
> >> this is for Delphi7 to Delphi 2007 and for FreePascal, and
> >> there is another file to download called parchiver_xe.zip , this
> >> one is for Delphi XE to XE6.
> >>
> >>
> >> You can download Parallel archiver from:
> >>
> >> https://sites.google.com/site/aminer68/parallel-archiver
> >
> > I don't see compatibility notes to answer the question: what other
> > archivers can extract the archives produced by this program, and
> > vice versa?
> >
> >> And of course it's a freeware...
> >>
> >> So be happy with my Parallel archiver cause it's very fast !
> >
> > The fastest archiver is the one that most users already have
> > installed.
> >
> > CPU cycles will never recover the time wasted by users who receive
> > an archive in some obscure format for which they have to hunt down
> > and install a Windows executable.
> >
> > (Or worse, have to get a Windows box or virtual machine for that.
> > Which brings us to the point that all the good archivers out have
> > the important virtue that they are cross-platform.)
> >
> 
> You don't understand, my Parallel archiver works only on Win32 and
> Win64 but my Parallel archiver don't look like the other archivers,
> cause you can use it as a Hashtable from the Hardisk with O(1) very
> fast access  and i think that's useful, the other archivers can not
> do that, also if you have a database on Win32 or Win64 that you want
> to backup it is useful also for that, or if you want to backup your
> files on the Windows systems it is still useful , but i have not
> designed it to compete on the cross-platform criteria with other
> archivers like 7Zip.
> 
> Hope you have understood.

Then you should post to a windows newsgroup instead of incessantly (and
obnoxiously) posting to general programming groups.

And to diminish further your class of potential users, as well as only
being targetted at windows, it uses a particular dialect of pascal that
probably less then a dozen people in the entire world have installed on
their systems.  Who do you think is actually interested in all this
stuff?

Hope you understand.

Chris

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Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-05-31 17:37 -0700
  Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2014-06-01 02:38 -0700
  Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-06-01 16:35 +0000
    Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-06-01 14:05 -0700
      Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 Chris Vine <chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk> - 2014-06-02 00:29 +0100
        Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-06-01 19:35 -0700
        Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-06-01 19:40 -0700
        Re: Parallel archiver for Delphi XE-XE6 aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2014-06-01 19:46 -0700

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