[PLUG] Easy and reliable method to compress a folder

Mike Witt mike at computer-arts.net
Sun Sep 22 14:11:44 UTC 2002


> "WinZip® includes built-in support for the Zip,
> CAB, Microsoft Compress, gzip, TAR, UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, and MIME
> formats, so no other programs are required for most WinZip operations.
> 
> Copyright © 1991-2001 by WinZip Computing, Inc.  All rights reserved."

My experience is that WinZip bombs on some Unix file names (I think
ones with a ':' in them?) This may be a MS-Windows
limitation, but I'd prefer a utility that would keep going, perhaps
just ignoring that one file, rather than abort when it comes to a
file name that it can't handle.

-Mike



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