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From:	"Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: PKZIP 2.50 for DOS
Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:58:20 -0200
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Glenn McCorkle sent me a piece of the manual, but that
is exactly what I cannot understand: what is the difference
between them? They look the same to me :(

Alain


>> I am aware of case sensitivity (it has been so since the first pkzip
I
>> know of).
>> What I cannot figure out is the diffentence specificaly between
"-r"and
>> "-R"
>> in Info-Zip's zip.exe.
>
>---clipped from the infozip manual---
>
>       -r     Travel  the  directory  structure  recursively; for
>              example:
>
>                     zip -r foo foo
>
>              In this case, all the files and directories in  foo
>              are saved in a zip archive named foo.zip, including
>              files with  names  starting  with  ".",  since  the
>              recursion  does  not use the shell's file-name sub-
>              stitution mechanism.  If you wish to include only a
>              specific  subset  of the files in directory foo and
>              its subdirectories, use the -i  option  to  specify
>              the  pattern  of  files to be included.  You should
>              not use -r with the name ".*", since  that  matches
>              ".."   which  will  attempt  to  zip  up the parent
>              directory (probably not what was intended).
>
>       -R     Travel the directory structure recursively starting
>              at the current directory; for example:
>
>                     zip -R foo '*.c'
>
>              In  this  case,  all  the files matching *.c in the
>              tree starting at the current directory  are  stored
>              into  a  zip archive named foo.zip.  Note for PKZIP
>              users: the equivalent command is
>
>                     pkzip -rP foo *.c
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