Zipping Up an LC standalone program

[Pete]

Hi Warren,
It's the un-zipping at the other end that concerns me, not the zip on my
machine.  Sounds like the ability to handle tar files might require a
Windows user to install some software.
Pete

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Warren Samples <warren at warrensweb.us>wrote:

> On 04/10/2012 07:04 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>> I guess my primary concern is that a user can simply download the
>> compressed file and either have his browser autoatically un-compress it or
>> just be able to double-click on it to un-compress it, then have the
>> program
>> be ready to use.  I may be misunderstanding but sounds like it might not
>> be
>> that straightforward with tar?
>> Pete
>>
>
> I wouldn't say there's anything difficult about compressing using
> tar+bzip2, which gives much higher compression than ZIP.
>
> In a terminal:
>
> cd to directory containing the directory you want to archive and compress
>
> issue the command: tar cfj name-of-archive-to-create.tbz2
> name-of-directory-to-archive
>
> Done
>
> It seems simple enough.
>
> Warren
>
>
>
>
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