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From: mcc@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Merton Campbell Crockett)
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Subject: Re: PKUNZIPping directory trees
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.023604.9998@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 02:36:04 GMT
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 In article <15713@mendip.UUCP> mhr@mendip.UUCP (MHR {who?}) writes:
 >In <1991Mar03.171051.20116@ariel.unm.edu>, ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu writes:
 >> PKZIP has an option for storing pathnames, but is there any way to get it
 >> to store a directory, its contents and all subdirectories thereof in such
 >> a way that PKUNZIP will restore that portion of the tree?

 >According to the command line help screens, PKZIP -pr <zipfile> <files>
 >will recurse the subdirectories from the CD and store the pathnames in
 >the zip file.  PKUNZIP -d <zipfile> will recreate directories stored in
 >the zip file.

Use the -h option with either program for the switch options.  One caution
concerning the backup and restore operation with the above switches.  The
restore operation will restore everything as a subdirectory tree from the
directory you are in.  If /a/b/c is the structure and you are in /a when
you restore, the new structure will be /a/a/b/c.  Oops. substitute "\" for
"/" in the above--hate when that happens.

Merton