Author Topic: Transferring A File to zip with Mac (Read 546 times)

Pissed_Macman · « **on:** 21 August 2003, 05:34 »

What Mac program should I use to transfer a file to zip format?

mobrien_12 · « **Reply #1 on:** 21 August 2003, 06:35 »

The infozip project has source code for unix systems.

Pissed_Macman · « **Reply #2 on:** 21 August 2003, 11:42 »

I've tried it. The download doesn't start.

hm_murdock · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 August 2003, 11:37 »

gzip in OS X does it. every unzipper utility in the world opens gzip files

usage:

gzip FILENAME

Faust · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 August 2003, 16:59 »

Maybe he wants it to open on a crippled machine which has no basic unzipper by defauly and can only open crappy .zip files? (If so maybe get your friends a copy of winrar for christmas man, that does gzip fine...)

Pissed_Macman · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 August 2003, 07:17 »

I'm trying to upload something to sites that will only take it in zip format. I downloaded gzip i think. It gave me a folder full of different files but no program. How am I supposed to get the program (sorry, I'm used to programs that download, uncompress, and are ready to use automatically). Did I even download the right thing?

mobrien_12 · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 August 2003, 21:12 »

Did you try the infozip ftp site directly? I just downloaded the source myself to check.

ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/

Unix source and maczip program are in there.

Pissed_Macman · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 August 2003, 10:32 »

Okay, I downloaded Maczip but once again I have a folder full of weird-ass files and stuff. How do I start installing it??

mobrien_12 · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 August 2003, 11:58 »

quote:
Originally posted by Macman:
Okay, I downloaded Maczip but once again I have a folder full of weird-ass files and stuff. How do I start installing it??

I haven't used maczip, just the unix/linux, windows and dos versions. All of those just required you to put them in a folder and run them. No install needed.

[ August 24, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

Pissed_Macman · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 August 2003, 20:18 »

Ugg, but what exactly do I open to run these files? Compressing something to a zip can't be this complicated! :mad:

mobrien_12 · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 August 2003, 21:43 »

If you compile the unix version its pretty easy from what I remember... like ./configure make etc.
It's a command line program.

Put the zip and unzip files into a directory in your path.

In command line, type "zip" by itself and it will give you a mini-man page

Zipping files is easy from the command line

zip foo.zip *
will zip everything in the current dirctory, making a file called foo.zip

[ August 25, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

Faust · « **Reply #11 on:** 26 August 2003, 07:12 »

Shouldn't there be some really easy GUI tool for this?

mobrien_12 · « **Reply #12 on:** 26 August 2003, 07:36 »

quote:
Originally posted by Faust:
Shouldn't there be some really easy GUI tool for this?

There probably is a gui in the maczip program, but since I havn't used it I cannot offer advice on it.

And the command line I posted isn't hard by any stretch.

hm_murdock · « **Reply #13 on:** 26 August 2003, 07:46 »

also, have no fear. Panther will make .zip files for you when it comes out. It can archive folders to .zip directly from the Finder

Pissed_Macman · « **Reply #14 on:** 26 August 2003, 07:56 »

That's good to know. But for now I give up on this whole thing.

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