OT: looking for a good Zip Tool on Mac

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Tiemo,

I prepare all my zip files for distribution on my Mac. Somtimes, I  
need to create a zip file without Mac-specific files. I do this with  
the shell and two simple Revolution scripts.

I have a stack with a field, containing the following scripts:

on dragdrop
    put the dragData
    put the dragData into myFile
    if there is a file myFile or there is a folder myFile then
       put myFile into me
    else
       beep
       put empty into me
    end if
end dragdrop


and a button with:

on mouseUp
    set the itemDel to slash
    if there is a folder fld "File" or there is a file fld "File" then
       set the directory to item 1 to -2 of fld "File"
       put item -1 of fld "File" & ".zip" into myZipFile
       put "zip -r" && quote & myZipFile & quote  && quote & item -1  
of fld "File" & quote && " -x .* *.DS_Store *Icon*" into myShell
       put shell(myShell)
    end if
end mouseUp

Perhaps this will get you started to build your own GUI.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 3 jul 2009, at 11:45, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a Mac OS (freeware?) Zip-Tool with a GUI, where you  
> can
> choose Source and Target Dir, as you can do it with all zip tools on  
> Win.
>
> As far as I understand the OS build in zip function and most other  
> tools I
> have found so far, all of them just unzip the zip file directly in the
> source folder, without asking for a destination.
>
> What is a recommended tool on Mac, beside making my own with rev :) ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tiemo
>