Compression with *.zip output

Hello, Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? Man gzip suggests -S switch but when I tried it, I could not open the file under windows. Many thanks for your suggestions! Have

Re: Compression with *.zip output

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? Man gzip suggests -S switch but when I tried it, I could not open the file under windows. Many

Re: Compression with *.zip output

Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? ports/archivers/zip Man gzip suggests -S switch but when I tried it, I could not open the file under windows. Many thanks for your

Re: Compression with *.zip output

Hi there, I believe you are looking for archivers/zip Indeed I was! :) Thank you Manolis! $ zip easter *.mov created an easter.zip file with all the mov files in the archive. Great as I was afraid I would have to download the files, archive them and then upload which would take an awful lot of

Re: Compression with *.zip output

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: Hello, Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? Maybe this is a stupid follow-up

Re: Compression with *.zip output

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: Hello, Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? Maybe this is a stupid

Re: Compression with *.zip output

Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), Zbigniew Szalbot z.szal...@lcwords.com wrote: Hello, Is there a command utility to help me compress files with *.zip extenstion so that windows users can download and unpack it without using any special software? Maybe

Re: Compression with *.zip output

First of all, thanks for enlightening me. I don't use any MICROS~1 products so it was a really honest question. Whenever I needed interoperability with a Windows PC, there was the big problem: For any additional functionality foo you needed to install WinFoo. There was nothing from the OS's side.

Re: Compression with *.zip output

Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:27:20 +0200, Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com wrote: Wildly off-topic as we are discussing Windows, but all recent versions (XP, Vista, etc) can handle zip files. They call them compressed folders (don't confuse with NTFS compression though)