As I recall, the v option generates verbose output during extraction or compression, I haven't used it in a long time but that's what I recall. On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, JAMES DOSMAN wrote: > what does the v option do? > is it for .zip files? > james > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- dan Murphy mailto:mweeby at verizon.net MSN only: mweeby at earthlink.net http://mysite.verizon.net/mweeby