[OT] zip etiquette (was: dmdz)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Ellery Newcomer" <ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu> wrote in message 
news:hnc4o3$2lms$1 at 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.