30 Jan
2002
30 Jan
'02
4:47 a.m.
OK all you brains out there. See if you can answer this one. How can I
make PKZIP include ALL the files on a disk INCLUDING those in sub
directories and the sub directories themselves. Easy, you say? Go try it.
The help menu says that -r will make it recurse sub directories and that -p
will make it save the directory names and -P will make it save the sub
directory names even if they're empty. OR it says that you can use
-&s[drive] to copy an entire drive.
Well I've been trying to get either one to work for the last hour and I
haven't had any luck. -$a: ties to create a .ZIP file by the name of -&sa:
but that's illegal so it errors out. -rp, -rP, -Pr and -pr all do that
same thing. It copies all the files including those in the subdirectories
but when you use PKUNZIP all the files are placed in one directory
therefore losing the directory structure and overwritng any files that have
same names but that came from different subdirectories. I've tried this
with MS DOS PKZIP verion 2.04g and with Winzip but I got the same results
with both.
Any ideas about what's wrong?
Joe
30 Jan
30 Jan
5:04 a.m.
Rumor has it that Joe may have mentioned these words:
OK all you brains out there. See if you can answer
this one. How can I
make PKZIP include ALL the files on a disk INCLUDING those in sub
directories and the sub directories themselves. Easy, you say? Go try it.
The help menu says that -r will make it recurse sub directories and that -p
will make it save the directory names and -P will make it save the sub
directory names even if they're empty. OR it says that you can use
-&s[drive] to copy an entire drive.
Well I've been trying to get either one to work for the last hour and I
haven't had any luck. -$a: ties to create a .ZIP file by the name of -&sa:
but that's illegal so it errors out. -rp, -rP, -Pr and -pr all do that
same thing. It copies all the files including those in the subdirectories
but when you use PKUNZIP all the files are placed in one directory
therefore losing the directory structure and overwritng any files that have
same names but that came from different subdirectories. I've tried this
with MS DOS PKZIP verion 2.04g and with Winzip but I got the same results
with both.
Yea - you have to call pkunzip with the -d flag, to tell it to create the
necessary directories.
pkzip -rP is what you want to use for the compression (at least that's
what I always used & worked fine for me).
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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5:07 a.m.
And thusly Joe spake:
same thing. It copies all the files including those in the subdirectories
but when you use PKUNZIP all the files are placed in one directory
therefore losing the directory structure and overwritng any files that have
Use the argument '-d' when using PKUNZIP to preserve directory structure.
Cheers,
Bryan
5:34 a.m.
I think it's actually doing what you want, but the problem is your 'unzip'
command. You need '-d' to tell PKUNZIP to create directories, instead of
dumping everything in the current directory. Use the '-v' option to look at
the .ZIP file directory structure.
I frequently use 'pkzip -rp thisthat.zip a:\' to create archives of
floppies. Add '-j' if you want read-only/hidden/system files in the
archive.
--John
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From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Joe
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:47 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: PKZIP problem
OK all you brains out there. See if you can answer this one.
How can I
make PKZIP include ALL the files on a disk INCLUDING those in sub
directories and the sub directories themselves. Easy, you say? Go try it.
The help menu says that -r will make it recurse sub directories
and that -p
will make it save the directory names and -P will make it save the sub
directory names even if they're empty. OR it says that you can use
-&s[drive] to copy an entire drive.
Well I've been trying to get either one to work for the last hour and I
haven't had any luck. -$a: ties to create a .ZIP file by the name of -&sa:
but that's illegal so it errors out. -rp, -rP, -Pr and -pr all do that
same thing. It copies all the files including those in the subdirectories
but when you use PKUNZIP all the files are placed in one directory
therefore losing the directory structure and overwritng any files
that have
same names but that came from different subdirectories. I've tried this
with MS DOS PKZIP verion 2.04g and with Winzip but I got the same results
with both.
Any ideas about what's wrong?
Joe
5:39 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Joe wrote:
OK all you brains out there. See if you can answer
this one. How can I
make PKZIP include ALL the files on a disk INCLUDING those in sub
directories and the sub directories themselves.
Well I've been trying to get either one to work
for the last hour and I
haven't had any luck. -$a: ties to create a .ZIP file by the name of
-&sa: but that's illegal so it errors out. -rp, -rP, -Pr and -pr all do
that same thing.
Use the right format for the pkzip command. See below.
It copies all the files including those in the
subdirectories but when
you use PKUNZIP all the files are placed in one directory therefore
losing the directory structure and overwritng any files that have same
names but that came from different subdirectories.
Use the -d option to pkunzip.
I've tried this with MS DOS PKZIP verion 2.04g and
with Winzip but I got
the same results with both.
C:\>pkzip -rp d:\foo.zip d:\*.*
PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 2.04g 02-01-93
Copr. 1989-1993 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
. 80486 CPU detected.
. XMS version 2.00 detected.
. DPMI version 0.90 detected.
. Using Normal Compression.
Creating ZIP: D:/FOO.ZIP
Adding: BARBAZ/ Storing ( 0%), done.
Adding: FOOBAR/ Storing ( 0%), done.
Adding: GREENBG.GIF Deflating (53%), done.
Adding: FOOBAR/GREENBG.GIF Deflating (53%), done.
C:\>pkzip -v d:\foo.zip
PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 2.04g 02-01-93
Copr. 1989-1993 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version
PKZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off. Patent No. 5,051,745
. 80486 CPU detected.
. XMS version 2.00 detected.
. DPMI version 0.90 detected.
Searching ZIP: D:/FOO.ZIP
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
0 Stored 0 0% 01-30-02 10:31 00000000 --wD BARBAZ/
0 Stored 0 0% 01-30-02 10:31 00000000 --wD FOOBAR/
78 DeflatN 37 53% 01-09-02 01:36 70bae4e1 --w- GREENBG.GIF
78 DeflatN 37 53% 01-09-02 01:36 70bae4e1 --w- FOOBAR/GREENBG.GIF
------ ------ --- -------
156 74 53% 4
C:\>d:
D:\>mkdir quux
D:\>cd quux
D:\quux>pkunzip -d ..\foo.zip
PKUNZIP (R) FAST! Extract Utility Version 2.04g 02-01-93
Copr. 1989-1993 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. Shareware Version
PKUNZIP Reg. U.S. Pat. and Tm. Off.
. 80486 CPU detected.
. XMS version 2.00 detected.
. DPMI version 0.90 detected.
Searching ZIP: ../FOO.ZIP
Extracting: BARBAZ/
Extracting: FOOBAR/
Inflating: GREENBG.GIF
Inflating: FOOBAR/GREENBG.GIF
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
6:16 a.m.
Joe, when you unzip with pkunzip, you need to specify "-d" so it will
unpack the directory tree as well.
g.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Joe wrote:
OK all you brains out there. See if you can answer
this one. How can I
make PKZIP include ALL the files on a disk INCLUDING those in sub
directories and the sub directories themselves. Easy, you say? Go try it.
The help menu says that -r will make it recurse sub directories and that -p
will make it save the directory names and -P will make it save the sub
directory names even if they're empty. OR it says that you can use
-&s[drive] to copy an entire drive.
Well I've been trying to get either one to work for the last hour and I
haven't had any luck. -$a: ties to create a .ZIP file by the name of -&sa:
but that's illegal so it errors out. -rp, -rP, -Pr and -pr all do that
same thing. It copies all the files including those in the subdirectories
but when you use PKUNZIP all the files are placed in one directory
therefore losing the directory structure and overwritng any files that have
same names but that came from different subdirectories. I've tried this
with MS DOS PKZIP verion 2.04g and with Winzip but I got the same results
with both.
Any ideas about what's wrong?
Joe
8:19 a.m.
At 09:16 AM 1/30/02 -0800, Gene wrote:
Joe, when you unzip with pkunzip, you need to specify
"-d" so it will
unpack the directory tree as well.
Great! that was the problem. Thanks to Gene and all the other experts
that replied. I ASSUMED that PKUNZIP would unpack everything that was in
the zip file automaticly. Now I know better.
Joe
2:58 p.m.
Well likely it's a lack of knowledge on my part, but my NEXT seemed to
insist on .pkg to unzip, altho tar is mentioned in the docs as native. I was
reared with M-Sloth and Atari TOS and later with other home computers so
the ideosyncrisities of UNIX tend to baffle me. CLI on a UNIX system may be
simple for you old hands but I've rarely had problems with most of the Zip
versions I've used on home machines. Maybe I'M the lowest common
denominator.
Lawrence
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Joe wrote:
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)mts.net
Any ideas about what's wrong?
That's easy. You're not using tar.
It had to be said....
Doc
3:18 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Lawrence Walker once stated:
Well likely it's a lack of knowledge on my part, but my NEXT seemed to
insist on .pkg to unzip, altho tar is mentioned in the docs as native.
.pkg is probably specific to NeXT, as I haven't heard of it under Unix.
-spc (And on every Unix system I've used I've found tar ... )
3:59 p.m.
.pkg is probably specific to NeXT, as I haven't
heard of it under Unix.
As the name might suggest, it is a 'package' containing the
program and all it's associated files, likely to include installation
scripts and anything else needed. That then generally creates an
.app file, which is actually a directory wich includes the files but
is seen by the NeXT as being a single executable file.
-spc (And on every Unix system I've used
I've found tar ... )
Drop to the CLI on a NeXT and you'll find tar there as well.
Jeff
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11:30 a.m.
At 10:47 AM 1/30/2002 -0500, Joe wrote:
OR it says that you can use
-&s[drive] to copy an entire drive.
Depending on which DOS-like shell you're using, the
ampersand may be eaten by the shell. For example,
with WinNT's command shell, there's a workaround
that I don't recall at the moment.
I've tried this
with MS DOS PKZIP verion 2.04g and with Winzip but I got the same results
with both.
You might try http://www.info-zip.org/ for a
command line Zip.
- John
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