Marcus,

I'm fairly certain the problem is in Redmond.  It would not be the first
thing they botched.  I'm just annoyed with myself for not fingering them
sooner.  By all means though, newbies will encounter it, so protecting
Windows from itself is probably a good move.

Is Pharo going to adopt the one-click structure?  On Windows, I do not
much care.  The VM "installs" trivially, and shortcuts are cheap. 
Shortcuts are not much more expensive on Linux, or maybe I haven't
learned enough about how to skip steps on Linux.  The VM is a little
more trouble on Linux, but nothing I can't handle, and I'll gain
familiarity as I go.  All that said, since there is something that is
brain-dead simple on the main platforms, I'm not too proud to use it ;)

I do not much care whether we use it or not.  If the plan is to do so, I
can save myself some hassle sooner rather than later, but whatever you
guys want to do is fine by me.

Thanks!

Bill





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University of Florida
Department of Anesthesiology
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On 22.09.2008, at 20:57, Andrew Tween wrote:

>
> "Bill Schwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> ...
>> Got it.  My basic algorithm for finding problems usually starts with
>> "what could Microsoft have done to screw this up?"  I faltered.  In  
>> this
>> case, MS could have made a mockery of the file names in the  
>> archive, and
>> that is apparently just what they did.  I do not care for 7-Zip's  
>> user
>> interface, but the engine works.  It magically understood the archive
>> (what's that word again, standards???<g>), unzipped all the files,  
>> and
>> now everything works.  Very impressive BTW.
>
> That rings a bell.
> I had the same problem with the early Sophie releases.
> The Windows unzipper tried to create a folder and a file with the  
> same name.
>
> I reported the problem to the Sophie team, and with the most recent  
> releases of Sophie, Windows can unzip it ok.
> Might be worth finding out how they got around the problem.
>

I think the problem is the Mac: the zip creates hidden files (starting  
with a dot, I think) for storing the resource
fork of the old macos filesystem. I should create the zip differently...

        Marcus


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