Dealing with Unix's .app folders as single files

[fredscal]

I'm running TC in a virtual machine (Sun's Virtualbox) hosted by Mac OS X 1.6, which, as you know, is BSD.
I also sometimes run TC directly in Mac OS X through DarWINE.

The problem is that the Mac's application files (.app) appear as folders containing dozens of files in TC, instead of just one plain file. While I suppose this is accurate on the low level point of view, and it may be practical for hacking into an application ;-), it is unconvenient for moving or deleting because 1) it is very slow, and 2) some of those inner files are protected, unreadable, undeletable, etc.
Or just the listing is already confusing sometimes.

Is there any way of treating those Unix ".app" as files instead of directories, e.g. for deleting ?
(the Mac's drives appear as network drives in the virtual windows environment, if that makes any difference)

Thanks

(note: other file managers behave like this too, not just TC. But other file managers are far behind TC anyway)

[ghisler(Author)]

The only way would be to modify the server to show them as a file instead of a folder. But I don't think that this is possible because they aren't just a single file...