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- From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
- Subject: Re: Some Info-ZIP problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.071223.8303@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan18.010002.2725@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> <1802@chorus.chorus.fr> <Gary.Woodman.932.727588007@anu.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:12:23 GMT
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- Graeme Cross <chegc@lure.latrobe.edu.au> writes:
-
- >>> 1. Recursion fails if the specified files aren't in the top directory.
- >>> For example, if I wanted to create an archive of all DOC files on my
- >>> system, using PKZIP, I could go: PKZIP -r TEXTFILE *.doc, and it will
- >>> recurse through all of the directories below the starting one, working
- >>> on any .doc files that it encounters.
-
- Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
-
- >I've noticed this too... darn annoying if you ask me, ZIP is _not_ a
- >replacement for PKZIP without this feature.
-
- Yes, well, some of us argued for this feature (even under Unix) but
- were outvoted (them that actually writes the code in question gets
- bigger votes :-) ). More votes might tip the balance the other way
- (or at least result in the option Jean-loup mentioned), but note that
- *all* of the Info-ZIP authors are pretty backlogged these days. Jean-
- loup has been busy writing GNU's replacement for compress, among other
- things (which has been causing quite a stir amongst the Linux folks,
- yuk yuk).
-
- Greg
-