RE: zip asdf backup.1 gives "zip warning: name not matched: backu p.1" ?

[Michael Kahle <michael.kahle@scc-wi.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kahle [mailto:michael.kahle@scc-wi.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:24 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: zip asdf backup.1 gives "zip warning: name not matched: backup.1"
?
> 
> 
> I am trying to zip a file for a vendor.  The file is named "backup.1" and
is 4.7G in size.
> 
> When I run the command:
> zip asdf backup.1
> 
> I get the message:
>       zip warning: name not matched: backup.1
> 
> zip error: Nothing to do! (asdf.zip)
> 
> Now this is a large binary file and I know there are better ways to
compress this file, but the vendor requires it in PKZIP format.
> 
> Any clues as to why this isn't working?  The '.' character is not a
special one in bash so I shouldn't have to worry about enclosing it in
quotes, but just in case my understanding is incomplete I have tried these
other combinations as well with the same error resulting:
> 
> zip asdf "backup.1" &
> zip asdf 'backup.1'
> 
> Is there some sort of size limit I am up against here?  I am using Zip 2.3
that is packaged in sid.

I thought I would also add that by running:
zip -v asdf backup.1

I get the message:
backup:/backup# zip -v asdf backup.1
        zip info: local extra (21 bytes) != central extra (13 bytes):
backup.1
zip diagnostic: including backup.1
zip diagnostic: backup.1 missing or early
 
zip error: Nothing to do! (asdf.zip)

Does this information further help?

Michael