Remove many files from Archive with one command

[Micke]

Hi!
I'm doing some tests with list files in PACOMP and the documentation about this says the following thing.

@list : specify list of files for compression (use filename instead of list - see example)

I assume this means that I can only use a list file when I create a archive using the -a parameter.

I have tried this:

pacomp -d Test_Remove.zip @Filelist.txt

Archive: D:\Script\Test_Remove.zip
preparing to compress...
*** WARNING: Nothing to add or update...

All OK

The error probably appears because I can only use a list file when I create the archive and not when delete files from it.

Now I can remove one file at a time, but if the Archive is about 1 Gb in size, it will take a lot of time updating the archive after removing one file. It would be better if I could have a list of files that I wanted to remove from the archive. That way I could for example remove 10 files at one time and then update the archive instead of remove 1 file at a time and update the archive 10 times in total.

If each update of the Archive takes approximate 5 min, then it would take about 50 min to remove 10 files from an Archive that is 1 Gb in size. If I could remove the 10 files at one time instead, then the whole update would take 5 min instead of 50 min.

My question is this:
Is it possible to remove more than one file at a time from an archive using PACL?

If not, I'll put it in a Wishlist for future versions of PACL.

Kind Regards
Micke