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Subject: Re: Archiver for entire directory structure?
Message-ID: <1564@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Date: 9 Apr 90 04:42:10 GMT
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Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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>Does anyone know of an MS-DOS archive utility which can archive an 
>entire directory structure and the files it contains into one file?

>If possible, the directory structure should be preserved so that when
>it is extracted, all the proper directories are created, and the files
>placed in them, as appropriate.

PKZIP is the tool you're looking for.  If you use PKZIP with the options
'-pr' it will save all the subdirectory names as it recurses into them.
When you unzip the archive later, use the '-d' option to create the
directories as it expands the files.

Ed Williams

ewilliam@blackbird.afit.af.mil