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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
Message-ID: <76686@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 02:06:41 GMT
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subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) <4512@idunno.Princeton.EDU> :
| Something went fishy the other day when it appeared that all of my .ZIP
| files were corrupted for some unknown reason. The reason is kind of odd,
| and thats why I'm asking why. The general way I used to create ZIP files
| of everything in a directory was to do this:
| 
| pkzip zipfile *.*
| del *.*
| qu zipfile.zip # i.e unerase the just created ZIP file


I don't know just why this is bombing for you, but why bother?  Why not
just do

	pkzip -m zipfile *.*

and let pkzip remove all the files that it archives after it successfully
creates the archive?

This is perfectly safe; pkzip doesn't try to remove the files until after
it succeeds, so you won't lose any files if things die in the middle; and
it's easier, simpler, and faster than your three-step procedure.