Message-ID: From: "Glenn McCorkle" Organization: Arachne Fan Club Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:17:08 -0500 X-Mailer: Arachne V1.67 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.50 for DOS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:49:34 -0200, "Alain" wrote: > 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. Hi all, Does this help? ;-) ---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 ___________________________________________________________________________ -- Glenn (your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd) http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/