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Create Windows-compatible zip files via AppleScript
Authored by: baba on Sep 07, '05 10:33:08PM
It might be simpler to work on the command line if there're not many nested folders to deal with:
mkdir tempdir
cp *.txt tempdir/
zip -vr zipfilename.zip tempdir
then
rm -rf tempdir

'zipfilename.zip' will be at hand and ought not to contain any dot files.
I tested this via the finder, too, by just dragging items to my "tempdir". No .DS_Store was created.

Question: Just when *are* these created. Is it only when using 'icon view'? If so, that makes sense, since I use only list view.

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