Hi Klaus, yes it helps :) though you brought me the third shell tool for Mac: "ditto". Perhaps you could give me a hint, what the difference / advantage from ditto to zip or tar is, or why you are using ditto instead of zip or tar? Thank you Tiemo
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:use-revolution- > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Klaus Major > Gesendet: Montag, 15. Dezember 2008 14:10 > An: How to use Revolution > Betreff: Re: AW: How to zip a folder? > > Hi Tiemo, > > > Digging hour after hour in the archives, the appropriate approach > > seems to > > be using the shell, but I have found different threads, some using > > zip, some > > tar and all using different parameters and don't know where to look > > for > > these parameters. > > Does anybody has a snippet for a shell zip, which works for folders > > with > > subfolders and common file names. > > Please remember that ZIP is not built-in into Windows (shell) as far > as I know! > > Here is what I use on the Mac to un-/ZIP files and folders, copied > from one of > current projects: > > ## ZIP Mac-folder > ## zmo = Variable holding a valid path to a folder > put QUOTE & zmo & QUOTE into folder1 > put QUOTE & zmo & ".zip" & QUOTE into folder2 > get shell("ditto -c -k --rsrc" && folder1 && folder2) > ## Preserving the Mac resource fork! > > ## ZIP a Windows folder > put QUOTE & zwo & QUOTE into folder3 > put QUOTE & zwo & ".zip" & QUOTE into folder4 > get shell("ditto -c -k --norsrc" && folder3 && folder4) > ## NOT Preserving the resource fork! > > ## UNZIP: > ## Mac: > put q(the ims_installer_ordner of this stack & "iDual IMS Mac.zip" ) > into d1 > put q(mac_ordner) into d2 > get shell("ditto -x -k --rsrc" && d1 && d2) > > ## Win: > put q(the ims_installer_ordner of this stack & "iDual IMS Win.zip" ) > into d1 > put q(win_ordner) into d2 > get shell("ditto -x -k --norsrc" && d1 && d2) > > > Hope these snippets help. > > > Or a hint, where I can research the parameters for the shell zip on > > Mac? > > Check "DITTO", enter this into the terminal: > man ditto > > > As well I didn't found any snippet for unzipping the stuff with the > > shell. > > Does anybody knows. If a Bundle.app Zip on Win, made with WinZip is > > compatible with a Rev-Shell unzip on Mac, or do I have to zip it on > > Mac? > > Sorry, no idea. > > > Thanks > > Tiemo > > Best > > Klaus Major > [email protected] > http://www.major-k.de > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
