Robert Kern enlightened us with: > Yes, the .zip file format does store file permissions appropriate to > the platform that generates the file.
I never knew that! Thanks for correcting me ;-) Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list