Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 19:33:42 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archiving directories / zip format Message-ID: <20101206083342.GA16636@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Z_yprmMPkRpQrJGDfF6sBO_jcP_wLfr701n9y@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=Z_yprmMPkRpQrJGDfF6sBO_jcP_wLfr701n9y@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon 2010-12-06 08:17:17 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszalbot@gmail.com) wrote: > 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? As somebody else already mentioned there is zip/unzip in the FreeBSD Ports tree. There's also a BSD port of rar/unrar if you'd like to use the .rar format instead of .zip. > Or are there any windows tools to unzip and/or extract content from > tar.gz files? In Windows I use 7-Zip. It's open source and supports .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .zip, .rar and a number of other archive formats. http://www.7-zip.org/ On the BSD side you can also use p7zip to create .7z archives that can be opened with 7-Zip.
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