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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
Message-ID: <27602141-618.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Dec 90 02:55:06 GMT
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>Author: [Kartik Subbarao]
>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

This should work, but there is a _much_ simpler way!

Use this:

PKZIP -M zipfile *.*

Using the -M option tells PKZIP to Move the files.  PKZIP will compress the
files into the zipfile, then delete the source files, leaving only the
zipfile in the directory.

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Gordon S. Hlavenka            cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
Disclaimer:                Yeah, I said it.  So what?