From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 06:23:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938AF16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C51E43D66 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (unknown [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA70D481 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:23:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <409103B0.7070400@landgren.net> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:31:28 +0200 From: David Landgren Organization: The Dusty Decadent Delights of Imperial Pompeii User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040428053947.GA77342@bellsouth.net> <20040429062624.GA1538@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20040429062624.GA1538@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Creating a zip file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:23:13 -0000 Shantanoo wrote: > +++ Bryan Cassidy [freebsd] [28-04-04 00:39 -0500]: > | I am trying to create a zip file that can be unziped on a Windows machine. Any help appreciated. > | -- > > .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz are supported by WinZIP. Careful with tarfiles and winzip. Earlier version of the latter did bad things when tar files contained zero-length files. I just checked with version 8.1 and it works correctly, but I do remember having grief in the past with this. David > | > | As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such things as a free > | variable." > | > | ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Commercial OS breeds commerce, whereas free OS breeds freedom, the only thing more dangerous and confusing than commerce. -- Michael R. Jinks, redhat-list, circa 1997