On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 23:23, Joshua Rodman <jrod...@hate.spamportal.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:29:49PM -0700, Phil Pennock wrote: >> On 2008-06-30 at 11:38 -0700, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: >> > At some point firefox changed from defaulting to save many filetypes to >> > disk to defaulting to a "helper application" or "viewer" or whatever >> > they call it. I used to save pdfs, but now they default to opening, >> > with a loss of the original filename. I used to default to saving zips >> > but they now default to being opened with WINE. This one perplexes me. >> >> Self-extracting .zip files have .exe prelude, don't they? So they're >> Windows executables. > > Self extracting .zip files have .exe postlude, if they want to > self-extract on windows (they do). Non self extracting zip files end in > .zip, by convention. This convention can be of course intentionally not > followed.
I interpreted "prelude" as "part of the _file_ which comes at the beginning" rather than "part of the file _name_". And AFAIK self-extracting zips do have the executable stub (the bit which knows how to unpack "itself") at the beginning of the file, with the data portion at the end - which works well since the zip directory is always at the end, so "garbage" (such as the executable prelude) at the beginning can be easily ignored by plain zip extracting software. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>
