Simple Pkzip Question

Haichi Roku

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Apr 9, 2002, 10:23:54 AM4/9/02

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I'm trying to use pkzip in MS-DOS but I can't put together all the option to
work at the same time:

-Span zip files onto several disks in the a:\.
- recurse directories.
- include hidden files.

For some reason I don't know how to put the pkzip command options in the
right order. If someone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Gabriele Neukam

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Apr 9, 2002, 1:24:59 PM4/9/02

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On the illustrous day Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:23:54 GMT, Haichi Roku,
jma...@yahoo.com says...

> I'm trying to use pkzip in MS-DOS but I can't put together all the option to
> work at the same time:
>
> -Span zip files onto several disks in the a:\.

Span? I have never heard that the DOS version finally could do it, too.
Perhaps you have to use Arj, which does what you are asking for.

Gabriele Neukam

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Richard

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Apr 9, 2002, 2:48:04 PM4/9/02

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"Gabriele Neukam" <Gabriel...@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> On the illustrous day Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:23:54 GMT, Haichi Roku,
> jma...@yahoo.com says...
>
> > I'm trying to use pkzip in MS-DOS but I can't put together all the
option to
> > work at the same time:
> >
> > -Span zip files onto several disks in the a:\.
>
> Span? I have never heard that the DOS version finally could do it, too.
> Perhaps you have to use Arj, which does what you are asking for.

Huh? It's been able to do it for the longest time, possibly even before
2.04g, I don't remember.

Richard

Larry Dugan

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Apr 9, 2002, 7:55:37 PM4/9/02

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Haichi Roku wrote:

I use Pkzip a lot to span disks, but I've never used the hidden file option. The
command line you are looking for would be:
pkzip -r -p -&w -wh a:filename *.*

-r -p is to recurse directories and to store the paths into the zip file

-&w will span disks and erase any files on the destination disk
-wh is to include hidden files

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Arthur Sowers

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Apr 10, 2002, 11:59:34 AM4/10/02

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If you have the pkzip files, there should be a documentation file among
them that tells you how this stuff works and you have to drag yourself
through that stuff. I've had trouble understanding and certainly not
gotten what I wanted the first few times around (and I don't have my
documentation handy right now) but eventually I got it right.

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The Took

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Apr 11, 2002, 6:46:45 AM4/11/02

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If I remember and you are having real probs I have a prog called zipchunk
which seperated the zip into stand alone disks email me and i will find
prog.

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Haichi Roku

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Apr 15, 2002, 8:56:50 PM4/15/02

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Thanks everyone for the help!

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