From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 13:32:35 2010 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 392F6106566B for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:32:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gorgarath@xsmail.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D478FC14 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376D41A1 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:32:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from oldweb1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.31]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:32:34 -0500 Received: by oldweb1.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 15FE75EC001; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:32:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1291642354.4382.1408875309@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: /k/hathBZeCy9jynacU4Ky0Y+JDHu7e9lvC4l5sNOzEy 1291642354 From: "John D McDonnell" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:32:34 -0500 Subject: RE: Archiving directories / zip format 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: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:32:35 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Zbigniew Szalbot > Dear all, > >From time to time I want to archive a quite a few directories to > download them conveniently. I have been using tar to do it, endingin up > with a tar.gz file. But the problem with it is that I do not have a > unix machine at home so if I want to extract something or unpack the > content, there is no easy way to do that. My question basically is if > there is a way to end up with a zip file? Or are there any windows > tools to unzip and/or extract content from tar.gz files? > > Many thanks in advance! > > Zbigniew Szalbot In Windows, I used to use PowerArchiver, which supports pretty much everything under the sun, until it was no longer freeware and have since found ZipGenius (free) which also seems to do the same. I have some issues with it crashing now and then and it doesn't seem as stable as PowerArchiver was, but the worst that has happened to me is having to force ZipGenius to close and then re-open the archived file. http://www.zipgenius.com/ -- John D. McDonnell gorgarath@xsmail.com http://www.gorgarath.com/