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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: Some Info-ZIP problems
- Message-ID: <bontchev.727615828@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Reply-To: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1993Jan18.010002.2725@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:30:28 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- CHEGC@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CROSS,Graeme) writes:
-
- > I've been playing around with the latest Info-ZIP ZIP program (v1.9 Aug 26 92)
- > for MSDOS and have come across two problems:
-
- > 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. LHA and ARJ work in a similar way. However, if
- > Info-ZIP's ZIP can not find any matching files in the starting directory, i
- > will abort with the following message, without even recursing below for
- > matching files:
-
- > ZIP -r TEXTFILE *.doc
- >
- > results in:
- >
- > zip warning: name not matched: tools\*.doc
- > zip error: nothing to do! (textfile.zip)
-
-
- This is true not only for the MS-DOS version. The Unix version behaves
- in exactly the same way (only the command there must be
-
- zip -r textfile '*.doc'
-
- I agree that this should be fixed.
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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