Zipping an application package by script

[Stephen Barncard]

So here's my problemo:

I want to back up a REV .app package in MacOSX Leopard and send it to 
an FTP server. But I need to squash the whole thing for upload first.

1. I've been using the zip functions in Rev, but one has to handle 
each file separately and just keep track, or just turn the internal 
hierarchy into a flat folder. RevZip has no provision for maintaining 
folder structure. Does anyone know how to create (or where to 
include) a 'playlist' for a rev-zip file that can tell an unzipper to 
preserve the folders? How is that done?

2. Using zip from the shell has problems - it doesn't want to see any 
.DS_Store nonsense, or for that fact anything else with duplicate 
names, even in different folders. I don't want to have to modify the 
content this way to make it work.

3. I have yet to find an Applescript that I could use that selects 
and engages the "Compress" item in the file menu of the finder, but 
if I could make that work that would be Marvey.

surely someone has solved this....
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stephen barncard
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