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Conference mpgs::pc_users

Title:	PC Users Conference
Notice:	Welcome! Introduce yourself in 2.*
Moderator:	MPGS::SCHWARTZ

Created:	Wed Sep 09 1992
Last Modified:	Tue May 20 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	351
Total number of notes:	1240

351.0. "winzip and folders" by SHOGUN::SKOWYRA () Thu May 15 1997 11:46

    I am zipping files using winzip32 utility. The files Im zipping have
    multiple folders..Some folders have files, some dont. When I zip the
    files and extract them the folders with data are restored, the ones
    without data are not created....How come?? Am I doing something
    wrong...
    
                                             John Ski

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351.1 folders = directories WRKSYS::INGRAHAM Andy Fri May 16 1997 12:44 10

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351.1	folders = directories	WRKSYS::INGRAHAM	Andy	`Fri May 16 1997 12:44`	10
	You're probably not doing anything wrong. I don't know about winzip32 in particular ... But it seems to be typical of the unzip programs that they don't create empty subdirectories, even though the .ZIP file may hold entries for all the original subdirectories. Thus it's a characteristic of the unzipper. I thought I'd seen a command flag to tell one of the unzipper programs to extract all directories, even empty ones; but now I can't find that. Must have been my imagination.

You're probably not doing anything wrong.

I don't know about winzip32 in particular ...  But it seems to be typical
of the unzip programs that they don't create empty subdirectories, even
though the .ZIP file may hold entries for all the original subdirectories. 
Thus it's a characteristic of the unzipper.

I thought I'd seen a command flag to tell one of the unzipper programs to
extract all directories, even empty ones; but now I can't find that.  Must
have been my imagination.