Nice. Nope, I was having problems getting it to even extract RAR. With your discovery, it can be easier to build the patch list.. Though, I wonder how many out there will bother using this? :P
I may have to design an EQEMU style front end for it at least. On my todo!

I got something I was working on a bit here, let me know what you think.

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/5563/skina.jpg

Ok just a followup on the the deleting of the (downloaded) .rar files. It seems the patcher is also able to delete files specified in the patchlist by putting a "*" at the end of the entry. Example:

1 FLD patch1.rar
2 FLD patch1.rar*

This will download and extract the contents of patch1.rar into the EQ patcher.exe dir, and then after is has finished, delete patch1.rar. So in sticking with your patchlist example,

1 FLD 08-08-09.rar
2 FLD 08-08-09.rar*
3 FLD 09-10-09.rar
4 FLD 09-10-09.rar*

would seem like a good way to go about patching clients and not leave the extra .rars behind.

That's sexy Fritz.

Do you know if there's a way to say "overwrite patch # 1 2 3 if 4 is available, since they have newer versions of 1 2 3" ? I wonder.. Also I probably need to rewrite the instructions to help people understand how this thing works. It's pretty easy though!

hmm... I didn't see anything that could do that straight up unfortunately... I suppose we could try to think up some kinda patchlist Feng shui to get what you want there, possibly patching the client a neoncube.file to trick it into thinking it has a higher/lower patch file than it really does might be worth investigating.

actually if you can remove patch numbers, that'd do the same thing.

E.g.
1 FLD 08-08-09.rar
2 FLD 08-08-09.rar*
3 FLD 09-10-09.rar
4 FLD 09-10-09.rar*

you could go
5 FLD 09-12-09.rar
6 FLD 09-12-09.rar*

and then the patch will think it's a new update, and those who aren't up to date will skip 1-4 since it's not on patchlist and start on 5, and since 5 covers all files patched on 1-4, you aren't patching spells_us over and over... I think that may work. Would have to test. I think it could be written if it isn't possible.

Nice, just gave it a try and it works great.