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From: johnlee@pnet01.cts.com (John Wiley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
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Date: 10 Dec 90 08:36:13 GMT
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stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung) writes:
>subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
>
>pkzip whatever		<== You don't need the *.*, it is assumed
>mv whatever \		<== Most of the time you want the zip file
>			    in another directory (e.g. \archive)
>			    anyway...
>del *.*
      ^ You don't need the *.*, since . (current directory) will do.
In fact, you don't even need a space before the dot.  Try: DEL.
In the "consistently inconsistent" manner of MS-DOS, it works great for DEL
even tho DIR won't take it.  :-/

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