Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > 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 a

RE: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread John D McDonnell
> -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 machin

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:49:23 +0100 Hasse Hansson articulated: > >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 s

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:17:17 +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > 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 >

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Wootton
On 12/06/10 08:33, andrew clarke wrote: 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/ For Windows, I use use WinRAR for .tar and .tar.gz files Paul __

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon 2010-12-06 08:17:17 UTC+0100, Zbigniew Szalbot (zszal...@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 > un

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On 6 December 2010 08:45, Polytropon wrote: > You can install the "zip" program: > >        # pkg_add -r zip > > and then use it recursively, e. g. > >        % zip -r9 stuff.zip dir1 dir2 dir3 fileX fileY > > If there is no need for compression, change 9 to 0. Also > see "man zip" for det

Re: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:17:17 +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > 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 machin