7zip and ace suport (wrapper)

[Vlad Stanimir]

I read in the faq:
"ACE program is not compatible with the plugin interface of 7-Zip (Unace.dll works with files, but 7-Zip only allows plugins to work with abstract streams)."
Can  you explain the abstract streams bit cos i dint find the documentation for the plug in interface nor do i understand what exactly you refer to a abstract streams.

[dos386]

Get GUI "XACE" or commandline "UNACE" or "UNACE32" (!!!), unace your ACE files, recompress with 7-ZIP, forget ACE ;-)

[Vlad Stanimir]

I forgot to mention i am serious. I want to create a wrapper around unaced so it will wark with 7zip plugin system, but i cant find documentation and i dont understand what the developer are referring about abstract streams.
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I read in the faq:
"ACE program is not compatible with the plugin interface of 7-Zip (Unace.dll works with files, but 7-Zip only allows plugins to work with abstract streams)."
Can you explain the abstract streams bit cos i dint find the documentation for the plug in interface nor do i understand what exactly you refer to a abstract streams.
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[Igor Pavlov]

7-zip plugin reads from RAM and writes to RAM.
So you you must use temp files.

[Vlad Stanimir]

Interesting, but still no documentation, guess i will have to study the code to figure out just how to implement the ace plugin wrapper.