Thank you. Special thanks for installing WinRar. It's really kind of you.

I'm not a developer, but I often make some small changes in Firefox extensions.
There are thousands of FF developers, and I've been wondering why the major archivers don't include the option to compress directly to XPI.

Please see this post:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=37601.0

I'd be grateful for any further ideas.

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And thanks to MilesAhead for his help and for referring me to this forum.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=37640.new#new

Thanks again. I appreciate it!

That script is a good idea, but before writing to its author:
 
I've written to WinZip support and they kindly referred me to
http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/238/
And suggested to replace zip with xpi.

It might be somewhat ungrateful, but I'm used to WinRar. I still may purchases WinZip.

set file=%~f1
"C:\Program Files\WinRar\WinRar" a -afzip "%file:~0,-4%.xpi"

With that code in a batch file, WinRar compresses to FileName.xpi

I've got some problems with that:
1) If I select all items, folders are not included in the compression (only files).
2) I get the same result whether I select a single file or multiple files (i.e. ALL files are compressed).
2) The compressed file name is always that of the file on which I right-click -> Send To -> Batch.

If I add "%1" to the end of the second line, only the file on which I right-click is compressed.

IOW, I'd like the batch to work like the "Compress to" command.


If you are familiar with batch code, I'd be grateful for help. :)

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I hope you're doing well.
Best wishes.