Creating a zip file

[David Landgren]

Shantanoo wrote:

> +++ Bryan Cassidy [freebsd] [28-04-04 00:39 -0500]:
> | I am trying to create a zip file that can be unziped on a Windows machine. Any help appreciated.
> | -- 
> 
> .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz are supported by WinZIP.

Careful with tarfiles and winzip. Earlier version of the latter did bad 
things when tar files contained zero-length files. I just checked with 
version 8.1 and it works correctly, but I do remember having grief in 
the past with this.

David

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