Use tar.
tar -czvf /<destination>/<archive name>.tar.gz /<directory to tar.zip>
So if you wanted to zip up /home into /tmp:
tar -czvf /tmp/home.tar.gz /home
Will create a compressed tar file named home.tar.gz (or alternately
home.tgz) in /tmp containing all of /home
You can open these on Win98 with WinZip.
Ric
Michael D. Viron wrote:
> Marcia,
>
> If you have win 98, you can install a program called winzip
> (www.winzip.com), which will handle .tar.gz files, or you can try zip on
> linux--not sure if it'll deal with a directory though.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Viron
> Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
> Web Spinners, University of West Florida
>
> At 12:24 PM 05/25/2001 -0400, Marcia Waller wrote:
>
>>Dear All, I would like to compress a directory with the zip format so that I
>>may send it to my Win98 laptop through email. How may I do this by hand?
>>I need to print out some info and I still cannot get my Epson Stylus Color
>>
> to
>
>>work with LM8 so I am forced to send the files to my laptop. My laptop only
>>has Win98 which is why I want to use the zip format.Thanks for your help.
>>Sincerely,
>>Marcia Waller
>>
>>
>
