On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> there is a bug in older versions of z cerain dll use4d by windows for
> "compressed(zipped) folders" in XP. I don't trust it. it corrupts and drops
> data according to my testing. the problem you had doesn't surprise me. it
> also doesn't handle files/archives over 2GiB. use 7-zip command-line:
> cd somedir
> 7z a ..\something.zip
> or
> cd somedir
> 7z a something.zip abc\*
>
> it has some bugs with regards to recursive directories (always on
> regardless of -r switch)
>
> the issue with compressed(zipped) folders seems to have been fixed in
> windows 7 AND the 2GiB limit is fixed.
>

The Windows implementation of Zip has nothing to do with any of the missing
files or such. All of that is handled by zlib on a Linux host.

--Greg
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