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> 
> > I've now implemented the archive-as-MIME idea, but it only supports
> > winmail.dat files, so far.  But it should be trivially 
> expandable.  I
> > just need to test with some other archive types.
> 
>   This breaks XEmacs compatibility because our version of
> delete-directory doesn't accept a second argument. In fact, we don't
> seem to have any simple way to delete a directory and its 
> contents in
> XEmacs right now.

Can't you just move the directory? the trashcan pkg basically does that
when it tries to implement the MS window trashbin.