[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] Archiver for entire directory structure?

news@blackbird.afit.af.mil (News System Account) (04/09/90)

>Does anyone know of an MS-DOS archive utility which can archive an 
>entire directory structure and the files it contains into one file?

>If possible, the directory structure should be preserved so that when
>it is extracted, all the proper directories are created, and the files
>placed in them, as appropriate.

PKZIP is the tool you're looking for.  If you use PKZIP with the options
'-pr' it will save all the subdirectory names as it recurses into them.
When you unzip the archive later, use the '-d' option to create the
directories as it expands the files.

Ed Williams

ewilliam@blackbird.afit.af.mil