or you can just tar it, winzip can open both tar, and tar.gz files just fine.
rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Monday, 23 September 2002 4:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Tar or zip? On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 8:25 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:05, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 22 Sep 2002 7:54 pm, you wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Do I take it, then, that (once I have installed zip), I use > > > > zip font.zip list_of_files_separated_by_spaces ? > > Yes. > > Alastair Or for those who prefer GUIs KDE Menu>Applications>Archiving>Compression>Ark Select New Pick file name with .zip extension Drag and drop files into the window. Naturally the zip RPM has to be installed for it to work. If you prefer there is also Gnuzip. derek
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