TConnolly
Lifetime Supporting Member
Has anyone ever opened a RSLogix500 .RSS file using 7-zip? Did you ever wonder why you would sometimes open a project and add a lot of code and comments and save the file and the .RSS file gets smaller? Or why the Big_Project.RSS file was smaller than the Little_Project.RSS file?
I recently installed 7zip to try it out as a replacement for WinZip. I used it this morning to open a zip file containing a .RSS file that I downloaded from another thread on this forum. In doing so I made an accidental discovery. I assumed that 7-zip would work like WinZip and if I double clicked on the .RSS file in the archive it would decompress the file and open it in RSLogix500.
Something quite unexpected happened instead. Apparently a .RSS file is in fact an archive and 7-zip recognized it and expanded it as such. Looking at a few different program it seems that a .RSS archive has 24 to 26 folders each with a variety of files.
That explains some of the mystery behind the variable size of .RSS files. Knowing that is probably useless, but I thought it was interesting.
I recently installed 7zip to try it out as a replacement for WinZip. I used it this morning to open a zip file containing a .RSS file that I downloaded from another thread on this forum. In doing so I made an accidental discovery. I assumed that 7-zip would work like WinZip and if I double clicked on the .RSS file in the archive it would decompress the file and open it in RSLogix500.
Something quite unexpected happened instead. Apparently a .RSS file is in fact an archive and 7-zip recognized it and expanded it as such. Looking at a few different program it seems that a .RSS archive has 24 to 26 folders each with a variety of files.
That explains some of the mystery behind the variable size of .RSS files. Knowing that is probably useless, but I thought it was interesting.