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- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Info-Zip VMS quirk?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.163446.6990@rei.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:34:46 GMT
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
- Lines: 25
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- While archiving a particularly old directory yesterday, I discovered a
- strange anomoly in Zip's processing on VMS. I used this command line:
-
- $ zip "-r9mVw" archive *.*;*
-
- This, to my understanding, should archive all files in the current
- directory and below (using -r), including older versions of existing
- files. When the archive finished the next day (sheesh, slow vaxes), I
- found that some files had not been removed via -m option, and in fact
- they did not appear in the archive, either. The files left behind were
- previous versions of files which had been archived. Since I specified
- my pattern to match as "*.*;*", I expected all files, including older
- versions, to be archived. Does anyone know why the files were not
- included? How could I change my command line so that they would be
- included properly on the first go?
-
- This is definitely not a complaint, because without Info-Zip, we VMS
- users would not have any decent archiver that saves file attributes!!
- Thanks very much, Info-Zippers. :)
-
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- #ifdef TRUE | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone) fuzzy@netcom.com
- #define TRUE 0 |
- #define FALSE 1 | "S-O-C-K-S ? Wow, Spanish *is* easy!!"
- #endif |
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