On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 19:34, Anne Wilson wrote: > I need to send a collection of fonts (about a dozen in all) to a windows > user. I thought a zip file would be the easiest way., but I'm not sure how > to get a zip file in linux (Mdk 8.2). I thought I would temporarily copy the > files into a separate directory so that I can zip all the files in the > directory. Could someone please point me at the way? I think she has Winzip > 8, so if I'm stuck, she could probably unzip a tar file.
The easiest way is to install zip. unzip is already installed but, for some inscrutable reason, unzip isn't (on 9.0RC3). So urpmi zip then zip <name of zip file>.zip <list of files> will do the job. WinZip will expand .tar.gz files, but painfully - in two steps and with a clunky user interface ... Alastair
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