[lug] Zipping files

Calvin Dodge caldodge at brechin.fpcc.net
Tue Feb 6 13:03:02 MST 2001


On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:50:45PM -0700, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> 
> I'm needing to send a research paper to a publisher, and although they
> don't have a problem with LaTeX documents, they seem to prefer that I send
> it to them in zip format rather than as a tared and gzipped file.  Is
> there a good way to zip (as in pkzip) a directory and its subdirectories?

Yep - "zip -r archivename.zip directoryname".

Calvin


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