Archive Behavior Research

  1. Bug #389176
  2. Comment #71

Comment 71 for bug 389176

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TGM (tommann.home) wrote : Re: Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click

Does anyone here remember ZipMagic on Windows 98?

It did something far more revolutionary than what we're still doing at the moment. It had an override on the File System, and you could navigate and use the contents of the zip file however you liked... without actually extracting it. It's major flaw was that it was a buggy buggy program, and I realize it's out of scope for the hundred cuts (indeed if some company out there doesn't have a patent on it) :( but is it worth a look?

In terms of what everyone else is doing here, I'd worry about double-click zip especially if a user encounters an (zip|archive|decompression) bomb.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb