AW: AW: How to zip a folder?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Thank you Jim!
Tiemo

> 
> Read these notes and see if this makes sense to yo
> 
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> 1) tar and zip it     tar -c -z -f MyApplication.tar.gz MyApplication.app
> 2) unzip it later     tar -xzf MyApplication.tar.gz
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/114019/match=compr
> es
> s+folder+shell
> 
> 
> on zCompressFolder fullPathFolder
>   set the defaultfolder to fullPathFolder
> --the defaultFolder is what the shell command considers the current dir
> 
>   put (the seconds & "_ORG.zip") into zipfolder
> --set a unique file name
> 
>   put ("tar -c -z -f "& zipfolder &".tar.gz _ORGANIZATION") into cmd
> --since there is no 'target folder' specified, tar considers the current
> dir
> 
>   put shell(cmd) into status
> end zCompressRoot
> --read the status variable to find any errors reported by tar
> --duplicate file names and folder names do NOT produce errors
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>