Which version of pkunzip are you using? And what version of WP? I use
Pkunzip 2.50 and have gone up to 4 directories beyond root with no issues,
but I do stick to 8.3 file names. Do you use a menu program to start WP? Do
you use the WP retrieve file utility to access the file or another method.?
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a rather Unusual question about directory trees in dos.
> I have a zip compressed file that contains rather a large number of .txt
> files.
> the files are of stories, and series, with the person who put the
> materials together using some major breakdown, for example an item might
> look like this.
> d:\stories\abandoned\series\the-end-of-time.txt
> Now when I ran pkunzip on the archive, the directory tree was created
> correctly.
> By which I mean there is a directory for abandoned, then a sub-directory
> for series, then the stories underneath.
> However in allot of cases the actual directory holding the .txt file is
> different.
> for the record, I am using word perfect to read the files.
> My question is this.
> is there a limit to the number of branches so to speak, one can have in a
> dos directory tree?
> Frankly I have never seen this problem before. I do have lfn loaded, so do
> not think it is the names of the files, especially since some of the
> content is present, and I got no error when I was unzipping the archive.
> Thoughts?
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>
>
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