Zipping Up an LC standalone program

[Mark Schonewille]

Pete,

This is a line from my Compression Tool software. It zips without the .DS_Store files. Item -1 of fld "File" is the name of a file or folder in the current defaultFolder.

put "zip -r" && quote & myZipFile & quote  && quote & item -1 of fld "File" & quote && " -x .* *.DS_Store *Icon*" into myShell

Installer Maker compresses all embedded files with the compress() function. Compressing the resulting installer again hardly saves any space. The compress() function is very efficient.


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On 10 apr 2012, at 17:25, Pete wrote:

> Thanks guys.  I was hoping for a way to automate this and a few other steps
> involved in getting my app ready for release by using the standaloneSaved
> message, that's why I was using the revZIPxxx commands.
> 
> I was also hoping that they would get around the problem I came across with
> the built in Mac compress function when the archive is unzipped on a
> Windows machine - some unnecessary files are included in the archive -
> .dstore if I remember correctly.  I found a program named CleanArchiver
> that gets around that problem but, once again, makes it difficult to
> automate things using an external program.
> 
> I'll give tar a try.
> 
> Pete
>