[QuatermassX]

Is there any way via a Perl script to browse the contents of .zip or .sit archives?

There are plenty of Mac tools that do this ... not sure about MacOSX (or UNIX, really ... I'd like to write a shell script that did this).

Any help is GREATLY appreciated ...

[absmiths]

How are you wanting to "browse" the archives? If you just want to see a dump, type (for .zip):

jar ftv [ARCHIVE_NAME]

and it will dump it out for you. If you want to "browse" the archives from a web server (E.G., to serve the contents of a .zip file as if it were the root of a web site), there is java code to do that also.

Stuffit files are pretty much up to Aladdin to implement.

[QuatermassX]

Wow ... thank'ee ...

What I'm looking to do is "peek" inside archives on a server and take a numerical count of the files contained therein as part of a CGI-script utility.

So for .zip archives your suggestion works wonderfully.

"If you want to "browse" the archives from a web server (E.G., to serve the contents of a .zip file as if it were the root of a web site), there is java code to do that also."

That sounds VERY interesting, though not exactly what I need to do at this point. A pity StuffIt files can't be browsed in this fashion ...

Many thanks!

[QuatermassX]

Alas, while running it from the command line works wonderfully, running it with the header as part of a standard CGI-script doesn't work!

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);
use Cwd;
print header;

Remove that and it executes! Hmmm ...