From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 21 10:27:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97182106566B for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:27:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240F88FC36 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so203796eyf.7 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:27:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GG4v32nDQjE1r6XmaQsoSg4cykUmeRGDLYYY6aDZmqA=; b=XArodcYPLSyNq5HRkCtvuIpxaQYaaBrMg6AgbQYK4PsyxdQfdI8O33Rz533+P8FrFZ mqIKsU44kX2K42f8hK40IvNvYU+VM9mUa0jIPGILCrXLWZ+xZAr6OdQnLp6dxEP4RvaH n+et+MvMy2GoyjsVlM6RqATAiYtVIYExsAGpQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fiqwA+IHOPuCiE9Zy38aLd2+xzQEQiJYoycIibjAm4htx+QICZwO4dRLJJslMlfAgk UsGR/hZ9VvI0OdVSAuJiuPrWvGI48/KnryG0mOsiYldR2B0bo1jgNnUm3KjmmMiOm1DK 4uTodFQK/bGOirDb3k10TcRpFJNoaL6ZdMUkg= Received: by 10.210.53.5 with SMTP id b5mr497330eba.18.1237631243083; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:27:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.dyndns.org (athedsl-4487099.home.otenet.gr [94.71.67.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm3269099eya.56.2009.03.21.03.27.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49C4C108.5080406@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:27:20 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081011) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <20090321112059.5be0581a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090321112059.5be0581a.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compression with *.zip output X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:27:24 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0100 (CET), "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? >> > > 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.