SlowThinker

For a pseudo-filesystem, is this similar to Midnight Commander? https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsfuse/

I am confused. I know almost nothing about Linux, but if I understood your answer, then - you offered a solution that is not related to 7zip but to Linux - files are actually packed into the zipfile; but I need all "packed" files are 0 bytes long. and then accessed like file system in Midnight Commander Yes, this is my intention: to be able to go through the folder structure of a .zip file, in a tool like Total Commander. But I don't need that the creation of the .zip file 1) takes hours/days for...

Is it possible? During the packing process, I do not want to store the content of files, I want to store all files as empty. I want to store only folder structure, file names, attributes (and ideally also real file size information).

6.5.3 Now it works as expected.

version 6.5.3: the problem remains. Again there are no problems with the CRLF style...