Pkzip 2.5 skipping dirs whose name begins with dot

Question

I normally (on Windows) package up a directory into a single file with Pkzip 2.5,

pkzip25 -add -dir ...

which recursively includes subdirectories and their contents. A problem I've encountered is when subdirectories begin with a dot, e.g. .settings directory created by Eclipse; Pkzip doesn't go into those directories. I can't find anything about this in the help text or on Google; is there a way to fix this behavior?

Answer 1

According to the pkzip 2.5 manual, pkzip considers as hidden all names that start with a dot.

Try to add the parameter "-filetype=all", in order to process files with all file types (includes hidden).