zip command?

[Ben Rubinstein]

on 28/6/02 5:04 am, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto at jeanne at runrev.com wrote:

> At 8:58 PM -0700 6/27/2002, Chipp Walters wrote:
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to ZIP files in RR? I want to take a
>> folder of files and create a single .zip file. I know you can compress them
>> to memory, but don't know if you can save the compressed stuff into a file.
> 
> put compress(field "Outgoing") into URL "file:data.gz"

Jeanne meant to write:

    put compress(field "Outgoing") into URL "binfile:data.gz"

("file:" means treat the data as text, which means some bytes may get
changed to reflect different line endings on particular platforms.  You
don't want a hair on your data's head to be modified, so you need to use
"binfile:" to specify that.)
 
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