Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:32:34 -0500 From: "John D McDonnell" <gorgarath@xsmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Archiving directories / zip format Message-ID: <1291642354.4382.1408875309@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Zbigniew Szalbot > Dear all, > >From time to time I want to archive a quite a few directories to > download them conveniently. I have been using tar to do it, endingin up > with a tar.gz file. But the problem with it is that I do not have a > unix machine at home so if I want to extract something or unpack the > content, there is no easy way to do that. My question basically is if > there is a way to end up with a zip file? Or are there any windows > tools to unzip and/or extract content from tar.gz files? > > Many thanks in advance! > > Zbigniew Szalbot In Windows, I used to use PowerArchiver, which supports pretty much everything under the sun, until it was no longer freeware and have since found ZipGenius (free) which also seems to do the same. I have some issues with it crashing now and then and it doesn't seem as stable as PowerArchiver was, but the worst that has happened to me is having to force ZipGenius to close and then re-open the archived file. http://www.zipgenius.com/ -- John D. McDonnell gorgarath@xsmail.com http://www.gorgarath.com/
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