"Ellery Newcomer" <ellery-newco...@utulsa.edu> wrote in message news:hnc4o3$2lm...@digitalmars.com... > > I suppose the name isn't so important, but I really hate zip files whose > contents aren't contained inside a single directory.
This is a bit of a "vim vs emacs" or "static vs dynamic" sort of issue. Most of the archive programs I've used, including the one I currently use, put an "Extract to new directory" option into my file manager's right-click menu. I *always* use that, and consider it downright silly not to. But every once in a while I'll get an archive that follows the "nothing but one dir" convention, so I get a useless extra subfolder that I have to either delete or allow it to clutter up my filesystem, and that just irritates the hell out of me. Personally, I'm convinced that any archive program that doesn't allow you to automatically create a subfolder by default is a bad archive program. And I'm convinced that a convention that places restrictions on the top-level of a zip is, well, rediculous. But obviously there are people that disagree with me on that. So, I guess it's a "vim vs emacs" kind of thing. What I really want is an archive program that automatically makes a subfolder by default *but* detects if the top level inside the archive contains nothing more than a single folder and intelligently *not* create a new folder in that case. But I've yet to see one that does that, and I haven't had time to make one.
