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From: peter@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.180045.2345@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 18:00:45 GMT
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In article <1990Dec9.224851.23130@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung) writes:
>subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
>
>> 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
>>
>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 *.*


I think what you guys really want here is to do:

pkzip -m zipfile *.*

The "-m" option will delete the files that it archives after they are
archived and so you don't have to do anything else ..

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Pedro Quien?		peter@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu		Peter K. Wu