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Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:05:43 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: zip won't zip

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> > zip -ErSv9$ H:\DriveH.zip h:\*
>
> Try it without the E option.

That fixed it and the tests worked fine. Steven and Ray, thank you
again.

Educate me (or at least try to): Zip says this about the E option -

-E use the .LONGNAME Extended attribute (if found) as filename

In FAT there's an 8.3 filename but in HPFS there's a long filename. On
a CD (which I just learned recently) there's an 8.3 filename unless you
use the new driver which gives you a long filename.

So is .LONGNAME the _object_ name or is it the long filename used by 8.3
file systems? And if it's the long filename, what is the attribute tag
for the object name? Are there 3 different names for a file -- the long
filename, the 8.3 filename if it's on a FAT file system, and the object
name?

- Peter

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