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Subject: Re: about zlib on FreeBSD
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Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:01:38PM +0000, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> To be fair, bsdtar(1) on my 8-STABLE box says it can read but not that
>> it can create zipfiles.
>> It it can create them that would be handy.
> 
> The support for zip creation hasn't been merged yet.

I finally got around to merging this.

After rebuilding libarchive and tar, tar -c --format=zip
should work.

Note:  The zip writer does have room for improvement; if
anyone's interested in a side project, it would
be great to get ZIP64 support and a few other details
filled in.

Tim