[geeks] Looking for a windows archive tool with a useful function

[Will Mc Donald]

Have you considered installing the cygwin tools? They make Windows vaguely
UNIX-like.

http://www.cygwin.com/

Or are you restricted to the default Windows tools?

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Byrne" <chris at chrisbyrne.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:40 PM
Subject: [geeks] Looking for a windows archive tool with a useful function


> Ok, doing what I want in UNIX would be trivial but I have yet to see an
> archive tool (unless it's a command line tool ported from UNIX that is)
> that would do this in windows.
>
> What I want is to specify a path or list of files and have every file in
> that path or list be zipped at maximum compression using the filename it
> already has and adding a .zip extension. I must not attempt to rezip
> existing zip archvies, and it must be able to assign a new name rather
> than overwrite existing files.
>
> Oh and it's be nice if it was free.
>
> Anyone know of such a beast? Failing that anyone have a script thatll do
> it? I could write one, but why duplicate the effort if someone else has
> it already done ;-)
>
> Chris Byrne
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