[delphizip] Re: Empty Directory
- From: "Roger Aelbrecht" <Roger.Aelbrecht@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:45:03 +0100
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair George" <bigal@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Roger Aelbrecht" <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: [delphizip] Re: Empty Directory
>
> Hello Roger,
> RA> Can anyone give me some more info why I can't make it fail??
> Because Roger you are probably not using MS WindowsXP.
>
> I do not know why NTFS should be different, but it would appear that is
what is
> the problem.
>
I am using WindowsXP Home all the time, and never had the problem as you
described,
I know we have been on that path, but remeber somone suggested that the
problem of skipping files beginning with ; was an XP issue, it turned out to
be
something in the DLL.
That's why I am trying to find out how it works on my tests and not on your
system, some flag we didn't mention can make all the difference
> We have been down that track earlier (previous emails refer on this
group).
> The way I would circumvent in Pascal would be to use the dirsize()
function
> on the route, and if contents, then size the other directories.
> Maybe there is something similar in C for the DLL?
> Al+
>
> RA> Roger Aelbrecht
> RA> http://web.wanadoo.be/driehoeksw
> RA> ----- Original Message -----
> RA> From: "Roger Aelbrecht" <Roger.Aelbrecht@xxxxxxxxxx>
> RA> To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> RA> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 2:09 PM
> RA> Subject: [delphizip] Empty Directory
>
>
> >>
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I really never understood the problems mentioned with empty directories
> >> but in a posting of Alistair George- subject New format,
> >> I found this sentence :
> >>
> >> b) the zipdll will not handle empty directories eg c:\jobs has no
files,
> RA> but
> >> has
> >> several directories within containing files. If c:\jobs\*.* is sent to
the
> >> DLL
> >> it wont zip the contents.
> >>
> >> Can I conclude that this is a good description of the problem?
> >>
> >> I always understood 'empty' as meaning contains nothing,
> >> but since I am not English speaking I probably misunderstood
> >>
> >> With this new knowledge I can investigate further
> >>
> >> Roger Aelbrecht
> >> http://web.wanadoo.be/driehoeksw
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alistair+
>
>
>
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