Re: [Web-ftp] Re: New Web-FTP features?

[Dan N. <dn...@al...>]

In the last episode (Mar 05), Anthony R. J. Ball said:
> 
> > - In graphics arts, we use macintosh and pc, so when we download many 
> > files a tar compression don't match, only a zip compression work for 
> > us.
> 
>   Tar works ok in a PC... winzip unzips it, I know...
>   No idea about Mac... 
>   I tried to do zip but could not figure out how to stream it, 
> which is necessary in this application. 

It's in the manpage :)  A single - is treated as either stdin or
stdout, depending on where it is in the commandline.

"zip - myfile.txt" will send its zipfile to stdout.
"zip - -" basically acts like gzip, but emits a zipfile.
"zip - outfile.zip" will compress stdin and create outfile.zip

Note that lines 2 and 3 do not know the input filename and will use "-"
instead.

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	Dan Nelson
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