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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:51:55 +0300 (MSK)
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Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.50 for DOS
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Hi!

20-ξΟΡ-2000 23:58 alainm AT pobox DOT com (Alain) wrote to <opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

 A> Glenn McCorkle sent me a piece of the manual, but that
 A> is exactly what I cannot understand: what is the difference
 A> between them? They look the same to me :(
>>> 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.
[...]
>>       -r     Travel  the  directory  structure  recursively; for
>>              example:
>>                     zip -r foo foo
___________________________^^^^^^
>>              In this case, all the files and directories in  foo
____________________________________________________________^^^^^^^
[...]
>>       -R     Travel the directory structure recursively starting
>>              at the current directory; for example:
________________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
>>              into  a  zip archive named foo.zip.  Note for PKZIP
>>              users: the equivalent command is
>>                     pkzip -rP foo *.c

     Need more explanation?