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Re: Need UNZIP that can make directories

#9861
From: Cave Newt
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 00:17
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In article <1346@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:

>It's a .ZIP file, and my copy of UNZIP.EXE cannot make the directories
>needed when the zip file specifies something like include/foo.h
>
>Anybody have a better UNZIP, or a better solution?

Pick up a copy of unzip401.{arc|tar-z} at Simtel ([misc.unix], [misc.vaxvms],
probably [msdos.zip], possibly elsewhere), or wait about two days for v4.1
to be released.  MSDOS/Mac/Atari/VMS/OS2/etc executables will be made available
at that time as well, and one of the MS-DOS versions will be posted to 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc shortly thereafter.

Btw, DOS zipfiles as well as Unix ones store paths with '/' rather than '\'.
Your problem is that unzip doesn't recreate the directory structure by default.
You need to unzip with the "-d" option to do that.
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