fdups: calling for beta testers

[Patrick Useldinger]

John Machin wrote:

> Yes. Moreover, "WinZip", the most popular archive-handler, doesn't grok
> bzip2.

I've added a zip file. It was made in Linux with the zip command-line 
tool, the man pages say it's compatible with the Windows zip tools. I 
have also added .py extentions to the 2 programs. I did however not use 
distutils, because I'm not sure it is really adapted to module-less scripts.

> You should consider a fall-back method to be used in this case and in
> the case of too many files for your 1Mb (default) buffer pool. BTW 1Mb
> seems tiny; desktop PCs come with 512MB standard these days, and Bill
> does leave a bit more than 1MB available for applications.

I've added it to the TODO list.

> The question was rhetorical. Your irony detector must be on the fritz.
> :-)

I always find it hard to detect irony by mail with people I do not know. ..

>>Did you actually run it on your
>>Windows box?
> 
> 
> Yes, with trepidation, after carefully reading the source. It detected
> some highly plausible duplicates, which I haven't verified yet.

I would have been reluctant too. But I've tested it intensively, and 
there's strictly no statement that actually alters the file system.

Thanks for your feedback!

-pu