How to use AVFS

Posted on May 13, 2008
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Here is a short tutorial on how to use AVFS:

AVFS is a system, which enables all programs to look inside gzip, tar, zip, etc. files or view remote (ftp, http, dav, etc.) files, without recompiling the programs.

  Installation environment requiress FUSE.
 
  After installation of AVFS,establish the folder .avfs in the home directory.
 
  Then run mountavfs,which does not require root privileges.
 
   Open .avfs folder, you will see a mirror structure of the root directory,which the cabinet can be open as the folder,but not directly access to them, need with the #, such as
  
   /home/yourname/garro.rar
  
  should be visited as follows:

  cd /home/yourname/.avfs/home/yourname/garro.rar#/


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  1. José A. Romero L. on May 15th, 2008 3:44 pm

    A new double-pane file manager for the emacs editor (http://joseito.republika.pl/sunrise-commander.el.gz) uses AVFS for transparent navigation inside compressed archives. An optional extension (http://joseito.republika.pl/sunrise-x-mirror.el.gz) allows to add funionfs to the mix, for full read-write access in all types of compressed archives supported.

    j0s3l0

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