[PLUG] Easy and reliable method to compress a folder

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Stephen Liu wrote:

> Which tool in RH7.3 is the easy and reliable instrument to compress a folder 
> which contains sub-folders and files as an attachment to an email.  The 
> compressed file can be easily decompressed in Windows environment for reading 
> after downloaded from Internet by the receipient.

  By "folder" I presume you mean a directory and its subdirectories. There
are several compression utilities, but the only one that works cross-OS so
Microsoft users can decompress files is called "zip". 'man zip' will give
you directions.

Rich