>tfw it took unixtards decades to do something that winrar

>>59478326
>winrar
>mounting archives
You must be confusing it with zip folders, extension to win9x explorer that allowed users to browse archives as if those were mounted folders.

>>59478326
You can mount a winrar archive as a filesystem?
Does Windows even support something like that?

>>59478326
uhhhh that manpage is from inferno....

>>59478326
>>tfw it took unixtards decades to do something that winrar had since the beginning

No -- with winrar, only the winrar app itself can see inside the archive.

With tarfs, EVERY app can see inside the archive, using nothing but basic file operations.

> being too stupid to know why the system you're advocating is inferior

>>59478893
does it matter to the end user?

>>59478947
Yes

OP don't understand what's a filesystem

>>59478893
Eat shit.

>>59479129
Calm down OP

No, Plan 9 was doing that before winrar existed... Not that winrar can do that. Does winrar even have a shell extension? Mounting like that works much better than shell extensions for the record

>>59479964
Winrar only has interactive gui like 7zip or file-roller or engrampa, not even interactive shell. cli is just arguments processing.

>>59480062
Okay let's go over some concepts here.

Windows usually mounts drives as these weird letter directory root thingies, C:, E:, etc. But Windows can also mount drives as folders, so you could mount your E: drive as C:/a_folder_that_is_actually_another_hard_drive

Now things that even vaguely resemble UNIX tend to mount one volume as "/" with no letter, and all other drives get mounted as folders every time.

What this utility does, same as the one on Plan 9 that's even older is mount archives exactly as if they were drives. You'll have a directory on your computer that is actually the inside of an archive, which every application, perhaps your graphical file manager, will be able to look inside

>>59480687
Winrar does not mount archives, at all. Cli part is non-interactive with three main modes - list, extract, compress. Gui is just a window dedicated to listing archive content and extracting it to %TEMP% when user wants to open a file within archive.
Zip Folders, Zip Magic etc do not actually mount archives either, instead, like modern windows does by itself, it integrates the archive content listing within standart windows file explorer, but still requires extraction to %TEMP% to open any file within.

Windows can mount files (VHD) as drive letters or directories.
Windows has installable filesystem (IFS) api that is used by for example ext2ifs project.
As far as I know there are no IFS for common archive file types.

>>59478805
"Mounting something as a file system" doesn't even make sense under Windows.

>>59478850
Which was created by ``unixtards".

>>59478893
rekt

>>59478326
OPajeet. The OPs who demonstrate their utter poo-addled lack of comprehension of things outside the Windows-sphere.

>>59478326
>OP getting BTFO for his stupidity