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From: NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PKZIP filenames (was Re: Bugs in v0.90 of PKZIP...)
Message-ID: <2047NU013809@NDSUVM1>
Date: 19 Mar 89 21:54:21 GMT
References: <129.241A07B5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <4397@drivax.DRI>
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network, Fargo, ND
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DISCLAIMER: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article.

I've noticed the following behavior in PKZIP and I was wondering if this is
actually mis-behavior or misinterpretation of the documentation on my part.

My desire is to archive the current contents of a sub-directory and store the
pathname information so that a sub-directory may be re-created as an extension
of the current directory at another time.  The sub-directory which is to be
stored contains only files no lower level sub-directorys are present.  To
store the subdirectory I invoked PKZIP with the following command:

   PKZIP -ap testdir util

PKZIP responded an error message stating that it had nothing to do.  I modified
the command to the following form even though there were not sub-diretories to
recurse to:

   PKZIP -apr testdir util

Again PKZIP responded with a message stating that it had nothing to do.  I then
modified the command to the following form:

   PKZIP -apr testdir util:*.*

This invocation caused the program to archive all the files in the util
sub-directory but did not store any pathname information to be assoicated with
these files.  I verified this by deleting the util sub-directory and then tried
to re-create the sub-directory with the following command:

   PKUNZIP -xd testdir

This invocation caused all the files to be extracted to the current (root)
directory without creation of the util sub-directory.

I then used the following command to create a ZOO archive of the correct
form:

   stuff util | zoo aPI testdir

All the files in the util sub-directory were stored with filenames of the
form:    .:util:xxxxxxxx.xxx

I am using Version 0.92 of both PKZIP and PKUNZIP.  I would be interested
in determing if this is a bug (feature?) or a misunderstanding of the
directory recursing features of PKZIP?  Either e-mail or followups to the
net would be acceptable.  Thanks in advance for any information which
is extended.

                                   As always,
                                   G.W. Wettstein
                                   BITNET:  NU013809@NDSUVM1


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