[delphizip] Re: Error: Bad Zip Option specified (from Poland)

  • From: "James Turner" <james.d.h.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:03:51 -0000

By convention, drive letters are not stored as part of the path information
in a zip file. Therefore, the operation you are attempting, whilst
technically possible, will fail.

Hope this helps

-- James Turner

----- Original Message -----
From: "p_piter" <p_piter@xxxxx>
To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 7:43 AM
Subject: [delphizip] Error: Bad Zip Option specified (from Poland)


> Hello,
>     I can't compress 2 files (with the same name) C:\test.txt and
D:\test.txt. I add its with AddDirNames, AddHiddenFiles options and I get an
error "Bad zip option specified".
> I noticed when I change a name of one of these files everything is ok.
>
> The same problem is in demo program included in the DelphiZip packaged. I
can't add files (sometimes with the same names) with full pathnames from for
example: C:\, D:\, E:\ drive.
>
>
> If somebody meet the same problem I'll be very appreciate for a help.
>
> Greetings,
> Piotr Murawski
>
>
>
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