PKZIP problem

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Wed Jan 30 11:16:15 2002

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
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 30 2002 - 11:16:15 GMT