PKZIP problem - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Jan 2002

In a message dated 1/30/02 10:51:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com writes:

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    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?

You are doing fine...  From DOS you can do a:
pkzip -rp zipname
to recoursively zip all your files and then unzip them into their correct 
directory structure by doing a:
pkunzip -d zipname
Just tried it an it works great and even keeps empty directories for ya.  I 
am using pkzip/unzip for DOS version 2.04g...

-Linc.

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