RE: [DL] new utility available

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Nick Zachariasen
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:18 AM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] new utility available
>
>
> > how about that i just realized i didn't have winzip.. and that was the
> > problem.
> >
> > mostly.. kinda..
> >
> > i got it to work, BUT... i must reshuffle between draws, and the link
> > 'download as a zip file' is still there.
>
> Well, yeah, I just took the page as-is and ZIPped it along with the /cards
> directory. You're supposed to have to reshuffle between draws. If you need
> to draw extra cards (like to determine a Joker) just increase the number
> drawn by however many you need and click Draw! again. There's the
> chance you
> could get a repeat (I think), but it's not that big. How exactly
> did you get
> it on your hard drive without Winzip, though- did you just save the page
> using Internet Explorer and use the default "Save As -> Web Page,
> Complete"?
>
> Nick Zachariasen
> Editor Emeritus
> Trojan Times
>

WinXP will read zip files and makes 'em look like a folder in the file
system.  Explains alot -- he could rummage thru his disk drive to find the
html (in the zip file) and open it.  IE would open the file, but since the
zip wasn't actually unzipped, there'd be issues with finding the card
images.  Flip back over to the file tree window, and you could see the card
image files.

Does that sound like what happened?  Adding winzip and officially extracting
the zip file would fix this scenario, just like you seem to have done.  Not
actually offering any useful help here, just taking the evidence and tossing
up a why-it-happened explanation.

Jeff Y.