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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Crash Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Norton QUerase and .ZIP files
Message-ID: <276bd8b3-648.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 17 Dec 90 06:55:04 GMT
References: <6231@crash.cts.com>
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Just to throw yet another suggestion into this mess:

Some have indicated that it may be faster to do "DEL *.*" (or "DEL.", if you
must) than to use PKZIP's "-m" option.  Certainly the safest way to avoid
the "-m" would be to do this:

     PKZIP -a <zipfile> *.*
     ATTRIB +r <zipfile>.ZIP        /* or you can use Norton's FA */
     DEL *.*                        /* <zipfile> will not be deleted */
     ATTRIB -r <zipfile>.ZIP

That way you don't have to use QU.  This is probably the slowest solution,
though.  (For those of you to whom each millisecond is vital :-P )

I still think "-m" is the method of choice.

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