From:	bmarcum AT iglou DOT com
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
X-EveryThing:	Net-Tamer 1.08 Unregistered
Subject:	Re: PKZIP 2.50 for DOS
Message-Id:	<E13yaKu-0007lE-00@iglou.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:53:24 -0500
Reply-To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com

On 2000-11-20 opendos AT delorie DOT com said to bmarcum AT iglou DOT com
   >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 :(
The difference is for operating systems which allow filenames to start with
"."  If you type "zip" with no filename in DOS, it doesn't list the "-r"
option, at least in version 2.2.

   >>       -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
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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