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Subject: Re: What features make WinZip a bad idea?
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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:19:55 GMT
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"W Thex" <cprogrammer AT thex DOT net> wrote:

>> What irks me is that you can't delete a directory name and don't know it exists
>> because it doesn't display it.  It only displays files.  So you insert a/b.txt,
>
>Im not sure that im following you here, because I see the directory names in the
>version of winzip that I use. (Ver. 8.0).   I just recently switched from v2.70, and
>I was able to see all the directories in the winzip window in that version.

AFAIK, a directory name is stored as one entry in the zip format.  If you add
one file with paths and its five levels deep in a directory structure, what you
really add are six zip entries, not just one file. a/b/c/d/e/lala.txt becomes
a/
a/b/
a/b/c/
a/b/c/d/
a/b/c/d/e/
a/b/c/d/e/lala.txt

>> then decide to delete it and a/ is still in there hidden from view.

Ok, so you delete lala.txt from the archive and nothing else is in the tree...
all that directory stuff is still left in the archive.

>I have never tried to delete a directory, while the files are still compressed.
>I'll have to try this and see what happens.

That's because you can't see that it exists in winzip's listbox.  It won't list
directory names as entries, just files.
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