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From: donovan@hawkeye.uucp (Dennis Donovan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: zip-ping recursive subdirs ?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 18:34:41 GMT
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In article <7456@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner) writes:
>
>The doc says pkzip can also pack ( ehem ... zip ) subdirectories. How
>can this be done ?
>
>I tried the options p and P, but neither worked. So what mistake did I make ?
>

Since I just figured this out I'll pass it along.

To pack use:
	pkzip -arP ArchiveFile SubdirectoryName/*.*

To un-pack use:
	pkunzip -d ArchiveFile


I did it from the root directory and specified the sub-directory so that when
I unpack it, it will recreate the whole directory structure.

I used 1.10 and it works fine.  Don't forget the -d on the unpack or you will
be left with the whole directory structure in the directory you unpack it to!!

Dennis
donovan@atexnet

P.S. It took me a few tries to get this syntax.  It wasn't completely clear from
the documentation.

--
Dennis Donovan
donovan@atexnet

"Nobody asked, just my opinion"