Transferring A File to zip with Mac

[Pissed_Macman]

What Mac program should I use to transfer a file to zip format?

[mobrien_12]

The infozip project has source code for unix systems.

[Pissed_Macman]

I've tried it. The download doesn't start.

[hm_murdock]

gzip in OS X does it. every unzipper utility in the world opens gzip files

usage:

gzip FILENAME

[Faust]

Maybe he wants it to open on a crippled machine which has no basic unzipper by defauly and can only open crappy .zip files?  (If so maybe get your friends a copy of winrar for christmas man, that does gzip fine...)

[Pissed_Macman]

I'm trying to upload something to sites that will only take it in zip format. I downloaded gzip i think. It gave me a folder full of different files but no program. How am I supposed to get the program (sorry, I'm used to programs that download, uncompress, and are ready to use automatically). Did I even download the right thing?

[mobrien_12]

Did you try the infozip ftp site directly?  I just downloaded the source myself to check.

ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/

Unix source and maczip program are in there.

[Pissed_Macman]

Okay, I downloaded Maczip but once again I have a folder full of weird-ass files and stuff. How do I start installing it??

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Macman:
Okay, I downloaded Maczip but once again I have a folder full of weird-ass files and stuff. How do I start installing it??

I haven't used maczip, just the unix/linux, windows and dos versions.  All of those just required you to put them in a folder and run them.  No install needed.

[ August 24, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Pissed_Macman]

Ugg, but what exactly do I open to run these files? Compressing something to a zip can't be this complicated!  :mad:

[mobrien_12]

If you compile the unix version its pretty easy from what I remember... like ./configure make etc.
It's a command line program.

Put the zip and unzip files into a directory in your path.

In command line, type "zip" by itself and it will give you a mini-man page

Zipping files is easy from the command line

zip foo.zip *
will zip everything in the current dirctory, making a file called foo.zip

[ August 25, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[Faust]

Shouldn't there be some really easy GUI tool for this?

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Shouldn't there be some really easy GUI tool for this?

There probably is a gui in the maczip program, but since I havn't used it I cannot offer advice on it.

And the command line I posted isn't hard by any stretch.

[hm_murdock]

also, have no fear. Panther will make .zip files for you when it comes out. It can archive folders to .zip directly from the Finder

[Pissed_Macman]

That's good to know. But for now I give up on this whole thing.