command line file compression

yawnmoth · Jul 30, 2007

As far as I know, there is not a way to compress a directory into a
single file via the command line in Windows XP. Is there a way to do
this in Windows Vista?

Synapse Syndrome · Jul 30, 2007

yawnmoth said:
As far as I know, there is not a way to compress a directory into a
single file via the command line in Windows XP. Is there a way to do
this in Windows Vista?

There are addons for WinZip and WinRAR for command line.

WinZip addon:
http://www.winzip.com/prodpagecl.htm

WinRAR addon:
http://home.arcor.de/lightsky/win2rar/

ss.

Synapse Syndrome · Jul 30, 2007

Synapse Syndrome said:
There are addons for WinZip and WinRAR for command line.

WinZip addon:
http://www.winzip.com/prodpagecl.htm

WinRAR addon:
http://home.arcor.de/lightsky/win2rar/

Oh there is a Z-Zip one as well, and that is freeware.
http://www.7-zip.org/

ss.

Jon · Jul 30, 2007

yawnmoth said:
As far as I know, there is not a way to compress a directory into a
single file via the command line in Windows XP. Is there a way to do
this in Windows Vista?

Also have a look at some of the unix ports

eg

GNU utilities for Win32
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

eg zip, gzip etc

command line file compression

yawnmoth

Synapse Syndrome

Synapse Syndrome

Jon