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 a nice weekend! -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 thanks for your suggestions! Have a nice weekend! I believe you are looking for archivers/zip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 suggestions! Have a nice weekend! -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 time! Thanks again! -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 question, but... since WHEN is Windows able to handle any kind of archive file (except its own CAB format) without installing any third party software? Windows users NEED to install additional software for every little piece that a proper OS should be able to do on its own... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 question, but... since WHEN is Windows able to handle any kind of archive file (except its own CAB format) without installing any third party software? Windows users NEED to install additional software for every little piece that a proper OS should be able to do on its own... I do not feel in any position to speak for Windows OS but I do not have any special archiver in my XP system. There's some utility built into the system that allows you to unpack or archive files in zip extension. -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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 this is a stupid follow-up question, but... since WHEN is Windows able to handle any kind of archive file (except its own CAB format) without installing any third party software? Windows users NEED to install additional software for every little piece that a proper OS should be able to do on its own... 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) and even have a silly wizard-like interface for extracting files from them. If you don't like it you can always install WinZip to take over this function. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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. 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) and even have a silly wizard-like interface for extracting files from them. If you don't like it you can always install WinZip to take over this function. I've seen WinZip and my stomache reported to me. :-) Much better is the FAR Manager which handles zip archives (and many others) just like directories, like the Midnight Commander does. It's typical for MICROS~1 to make things more complicated than they need to be, and invent new names for already known stuff. The next time someone mentions compressed folders I will know what he's talking about, and show him some (real) folders I have compressed to 10cm x 10cm x 10cm handy sized cubes. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
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) and even have a silly wizard-like interface for extracting files from them. If you don't like it you can always install WinZip to take over this function. I've seen WinZip and my stomache reported to me. :-) Much better is the FAR Manager which handles zip archives (and many others) just like directories, like the Midnight Commander does. It's typical for MICROS~1 to make things more complicated than they need to be, and invent new names for already known stuff. The next time someone mentions compressed folders I will know what he's talking about, and show him some (real) folders I have compressed to 10cm x 10cm x 10cm handy sized cubes. :-) More off-topicness: The compressed folders thingy is called like that because it's implemented as a very stupid rudimentary kind of a userland file system. Some tools - mostly Microsoft ones - really treat them like folders ... almost. The almost qualifier is because while they really sometimes appear like folders, they are not normal folders in that you cannot do almost any operations on the files in there except copy-to and copy-from, and that includes file content / icons preview. The most stupid part is that the support is built-in in the shell, not OS-wide, so applications that do (to translate to POSIX) readdir() instead of calling the shell to do it for them, treat them as files. Mostly this behaviour is annoying, if only because the built-in search tool (which works like find) does know about the special folders and, if you're searching something from the shell in a folder that has actual ZIP files, it will search *within* those zip files, which is extremely slow. A good, free (as in speech) Windows archiving utility for multiple archive formats (including zip, gzip and bzip2) is 7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org/ , which also has a POSIX variant that supports its own file format: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ . signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
