IF you download and install any unix/linux software from the net, they
mostly come in .tar.gz or zip file. When user uzip/untar the file, it
will always create a directory and unzip the contents into that dir.
This will not mess up users current diretory. e.g., you gunzip/untar
the make-3.7.2.tar.gz, a directory make-3.7.2 will be created under this
dir and all contents are here.

javaws should also take this approach, instead of unzipping the contents
into the current dir, it should maintain at least one dir level. For
future release, we don't know how many stuff will be unzipped, so those
should be in one dir for installation. For 1.1 or
2.0 product later, the dir will have easy name as javaws-1.1 or javaws 2.0,
etc.


nathan.wang@Eng 2001-07-26