zip on unix.

[vikmos]

Hi,
Just moved to UNIX world..
I need to produce zip files to send them out thru email.
Do gunzip or tar will do it ? I mean will normal Windows user be able to read this file with Windows (winzip)?
Just don't know about WinZip on Unix ? If it's there maybe anybody has a sample ?


Thanks to all.
Vittorio
Honduras.

 

[grega]

Use zip (man zip

Greg.

 

[PHV]

If you have gunzip, you probably have gzip too (GNU zip).

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[Ygor]

You can use tar to create the archive, then gzip to compress it, then rename the *.tar.gz file to *.tgz so that winzip can open it easily.

 

[PHV]

If you have gtar and gzip, you can directly create a .tgz file with gtar -czf options.

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[we2aresame]

zip is a standard file format, no matter what kind of OS, just like .txt , you can use it every where.

 

[themartellekid]

We use a nice program called pkzip for unix. One of our vendors ftp's the file to our unix machine and then we unzip it. Just another option.