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

[Anthony R. J. B. <an...@su...>]

  That won't work... its for multiple files, so I somehow need to
be able to supply the filenames, and, for that matter, multiple
files. Tarring doesn't help because then you are still passing a
tar file to windows users... it is just compressed.

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:32:33AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dn...@al...
> 

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