"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:jd0q1h$12pu$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 22/12/2011 17:27, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > <snip> >> IIRC it's possible to just open the ZIP archive as a regular folder with >> the built-in >> support. > > It's possible to open the zip so that it looks superficially like a > regular folder. And in doing so you can browse the files in the zip, copy > them to somewhere else like regular files, and put files into the zip as > if it's a folder. > > But IIRC you can't open and re-save files within the zip in-place. Nor > can you view the zip in arbitrary apps as a regular folder, because this > zip support is part of Explorer and not of the OS's implementation of the > overall file system. > > And I've found it to be very slow. People are bound to look for something > faster. And in doing so, might get 7z support as a bonus, thereby > increasing the time saving further if only we added a 7z format DMD > package. >
Yea, it is better than the wizard, but it still doesn't compare to the "Right-Click"->"Extract"->Done that every other windows archiver on the planet supports (and some Linux file managers, too).
