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Author: Matthew Crews
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: zip
If you're using Windows, might as well use the built in zip tools (pretty
much every version since XP? has them)

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:34 PM James Mcphee <> wrote:

> quick and dirty, java's jar is a zip format, so you can jar things up and
> they're in zip that most windows understands. the question i guess is what
> zip on windows are you using.
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Matthew Crews <>
> wrote:
>
>> I like 7-zip personally. Not only does it support the command line, but
>> there are also GUI clients. Install details at www.7-zip.org
>>
>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:14 PM Michael <> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking to get a job and one of the things they want is for us to be
>>> able to zip files before we send them. Now there is tar and all of those
>>> zip abilities but there windows centric so I zeed a windows zip thing. Is
>>> there a linux utility to do this or else what do you think I can do? I'll
>>> be compressing photos (if it makes a difference).
>>> After a little looking into this myself I found a discussion which says
>>> merely use 'zip -k'. Is there a better way to do this?
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