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- Subject: Another Info-ZIP problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.224456.11475@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: CHEGC@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CROSS,Graeme)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:44:56 GMT
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- Back again with another Info-ZIP problem. I would have posted this earlier but
- apparently our news feed has been down for 2-3 days and I wanted to read
- replies to my first posting before posting this one.
-
- Disclaimer #1: The Info-ZIP product is very impressive: especially given it's
- multi-platform nature - I have started to use it to ship files between my VMS
- account and my DOS and UNIX boxes, but anyway...
-
- Problem #3: Put yourself in a directory, say E:\DOCS
- Create a ZIP file, eg. ZIP -m9 TEST *.txt
- Now move everything else in the directory into the ZIP file
-
- If you say: ZIP -m9 TEST *.* you will have no problems
- If you say: ZIP -m9 TEST e:*.* you will find that ZIP moves the original
- TEST.ZIP into the new TEST.ZIP file, resulting in an empty directory!
-
- Now I have only tested this on the current DOS version, but be warned: it is
- possible for your ZIP files to eat themselves! The problem is easily avoided,
- but I had to rewrite a couple of batch files that I had. Note also that the
- current release of PKZIP does not manifest this problem.
-
-
- Graeme Cross | chegc@lure.latrobe.edu.au
- Dept. of Chemistry |
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