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From: ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.batch,alt.msdos.batch.nt,fidonet.batpower
Subject: Re: Extract File_id.diz & Save As Same Name As Zip File
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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:46:41 +0000 (UTC)
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FileGod (someone@some.com) wrote:
> I wrote program some time back that zips a File_id.diz save as the same name
> as the zip file so I decided to write a bacth file that does the opposite &
> grabs the File_id.diz from zip files & save them as the same name as the zip
> files but with the extention .diz since there have been a lot of files I
> downloaded more than once, these are automating batch files so do not type in
> a file name when running these batch files...
(Snip)

***   I may be misunderstanding what you are doing, but can one not just:

PKZIP File_id.ZIP File_id.diz 


   If you want to delete the .diz file at the same time:

PKZIP -m File_id.ZIP File_id.diz 


   To restore:

PKUNZIP File_id.ZIP
DEL File_id.ZIP

         Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/