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Why not use DropZip with open?
Authored by: houchin on Nov 05, '01 11:08:29AM

zip -h will tell you that this is the original old zip app that's been around on Unix systems
for years. In fact, this particular version was last modified in 1996. I used to use this
on Unix system, and my recollection is that it didn't even maintain any directory structure.

Instead of using this, why don't you just use DropZip from the terminal. Just create an alias in /usr/share/init/tcsh/aliases.mine (so all users can use it):
alias dropzip "open -a '/Applications/Utilities/StuffIt Deluxe 6.0/StuffIt Drag and Drop/DropZip'"

You could also use gzip, but you might have some interoperability problems with Windows users, and you would also have to use tar to archive everything into a single file (gzip only compresses single files).



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