Create a directory named 1.1.1

yaronnir · Post by **yaronnir** » 2005 Mar 16, 14:00

I get an extention named '1'??

Do you differ the directory (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) from files for extentions? Or is this a normal behavior of X2?

thanks

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Mar 16, 16:11

everything with a dot in its name is considered "extension"
works for .zip files, not so well with .1 files

yaronnir · Post by **yaronnir** » 2005 Mar 16, 16:13

consider this:

1 file named "1.zip"

1 file named "2.txt"

1 directory named "nikos"

1 directory named "nikos.author.xplorer2"

the extention for the last entry will be "explorer2" but it is a directory? so why present an extention at all?

or again maybe i am missing something out?

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Mar 16, 16:19

but .zip is a folder too! (for XP)

yaronnir · Post by **yaronnir** » 2005 Mar 16, 16:23

so use the 'FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED' to distinguish between a true directory (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) and a zip folder file.....no?

kishorfarm · Post by **kishorfarm** » 2005 Mar 16, 16:43

yaronnir wrote:1 directory named "nikos"

1 directory named "nikos.author.xplorer2"

In my 1.2 lite it does work well. No extension showed but directory instead.

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Mar 16, 17:13

'FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED' doesn't represent zip files!

yaronnir · Post by **yaronnir** » 2005 Mar 16, 17:18

you are right, my bad :D

it is one of the annoying windows properties on a file ....

so, question remains, is there no way to distinguish between a folder and a zip file?

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Mar 16, 17:53

yes, zipfolders don't have FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY
but x2 isn't checking this attribute for folders anyway
trust me, if there was a clean way to exclude folders i'd do it!

yaronnir · Post by **yaronnir** » 2005 Mar 17, 08:16

Funny how microsoft hides whatever she doesn't want to user to mingle with.....

the only think i could come up with regarding the zip folders in XP is 3 COM dlls that are stored in SYSTEM32 directory:

1.Dunzip32.dll - Responsible for decompressing files stored in a compressed folder or file when they are copied, extracted, or executed

2. Dzip32.dll: Responsible for compressing files when they are put into a compressed folder or file.

3. Zipfldr.dll: Contains the shell extensions for Compressed Folders.

the files above are un-documented, non-understandable, OLE View shows nothing for these COM dlls.

the only way i can think of is to monitor this 3 files when ever a zip folder operation is in action and to try to understand using reverse engineering

other than that, we are back to point 0

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Create a directory named 1.1.1

Create a directory named 1.1.1

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