Zipping Up an LC standalone program

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Tue Apr 10 12:51:46 EDT 2012


Thanks Mark, I'll take a look.
Pete

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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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
> >
>
>
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