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From: ms33@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Sullivan,  a.k.a. Sully)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: PKZip
Keywords: pkzip, pkzip subdirectory inclusion
Message-ID: <22267@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 91 13:58:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.175433.2537@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <12227@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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>> I have been using PKZip and unzip for quite some time now and am
>> very happy with them.  I have run into a problem using PKZip though,
>> how does one get it to zip up all subdirectories of a disk, I cannot
>> figure out which flag it is and how to make it work.  

> The command is : pkzip -rp <zipfile> <filename or wildcards> 
> 
> The -r traverses the sub-directories and -p stores the pathnames.  
> When the file is unziped, it will restore the sub-directories in
> their proper places.

To restore the subdirectories, one must use the -d option on pkunzip.  I.e.
  pkunzip -d <zipfile>

Mike Sullivan

One of many Michael P. Sullivans, my views are expressly my own, and are not 
endorsed by my boss, fellow workers, or any other Mike Sullivan. :-)
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