Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: Setup the .arj archiver
From:    Phil Taylor(21:1/242)
Date:    Tue Mar 03, 2026 16:42

 > On 24 Feb 2026, Phil Taylor said the following...
 >
 >  PT> I am trying to setup the arj archiver on Windows 10 but I am running
 >  PT> accross a issue that it's telling me that the file can not be viewed.
 >
 >  PT> Can you please tell me what I have to fix here to fix it. I am using
 >  PT> arj.exe and not arj32.exe
 >
 >  PT> Mystic Arj orginal Archive settings
 >
 >  PT> █
 >  PT> █       Active │ Yes
 >  PT> █    Extension │ ARJ
 >  PT> █           OS │ All
 >  PT> █  Description │ ARJ32 ARJ Utilities
 >  PT> █     Pack Cmd │ arj a -e -y "%1" "%2"
 >  PT> █   Unpack Cmd │ arj e -e -y -w "%3" "%1" "%2"
 >  PT> █     View Cmd │
 >
 > it's probably something like
 >
 > arj l "%1"
 >
 > in the view command section.
 >
 > it looks like;
 >
 > %1   -  archive filename
 > %2   -  file to pack, file to extract, etc
 > %3   -  destination dir (probably \mystic\temp<node>\)
 >
 > ~~~but~~~ the one example we do have for the view command looks like this:
 > 7z l -y "%1" >> "%3$2"
 >
 > which looks an awful lot like it redirects 7z output to:
 > \mystic\temp<node>\_filename it knows to display_
 >
 > so perhaps:
 >
 > arj l -y "%1" >> "%3%2"
 >
 > will also work. give it a shot?


Is that to unarchive the file or to view the files?  If not, can you please
provide both commands lines?

Thanks
Phil Taylor



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