Hey There, After reading "man zip", I am still not able to uncompress a load of NLS books in the specific way required for the task I am working on. I was hoping someone could tell me what I am doing wrong. I am wanting to unzip several NLS books without opening their directories; I just want to uncompress the directory so it can be accessed by a DB-player's software. For instance the following syntaxes didn't yield the desired results; mind you, these file names take up two lines. For the files who's names take up two lines I tried: unzip DB*.zip -d /home/riverwind/holder Resulting error message "caution: filename not matched:" I then tried renaming one of the files to file01. unzip file01.zip -d /home/riverwind/holder The file decompressed right enough, but there was no directory. Instead the actual files were decompressed. I am not wanting to extract the files, just extract the directory such that it appears as a single item into which I can get with a cd command from the terminal or in gnome doing <cr. with the cursor on the file. I don't know if anything of this nature is even possible from within gnome. If you can help me out, I would be most thankful, because I am putting together an electronic library. I have learned to use a flashdrive, and I am now quite proficient at moving and copying files back and forth from machine to flashdrive whilst creating and maintaining directory structures. I have come a very long way during this week, but I have hit a snag where I least expected to encounter one. What do I do now? Ray Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me and what I stand for. My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list