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: 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive