On 10/29/2011 9:43 AM, Lee Harr wrote: > So, windows now creates the dummy folder automatically? That is the default choice, but users are given a prompt to choose an arbitrary directory. Note that this only applies to the ZIP extractor in Explorer; other archive programs have their own behavior. I agree with you on having a top-level directory in an archive, but MS figures users are more likely to be annoyed with files scattered around the current directory than a nested directory. Unfortunately, many archives out in the wild have a top-level directory while many others don't, so one can rarely ever be certain how a given archive is organized without opening it.
> Is the problem that the .zip has the same name (minus the extension)? Not at all. > Just out of curiosity, what happens if you double-click the > README sans .txt? Does it make you choose which app to open with? Typically, that is the case because files without extensions are not registered by default. -- CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640 | Thunderbird 7.0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
