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Date:      Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:38:41 +0100
From:      Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>
To:        Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Archiving directories / zip format
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> Dear=A0all,
>
> >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!
>


For Windows I use 7zip -  www.7-zip.org - it gets the job done. It
takes tarballs (.bz2 and .gz) zip, rar, and whatever I ever come
around. Take a look at it.


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