Bit of a unix newbie so....

I've written a program to create a load of data that will get
transferred to a Windows workstation at some point. To save on
transfer times (+ the data will end up on a handheld WinCE machine)
bosses now requesting zipping of data files.

- We don't own the Unix server that the program will run on. User
will make the exe from sources that we provide
- Zip is the preferred compression format, would rather avoid human
intervention at either end
- The program creates several data files so stdout isn't expecially
practicable.


So, is there a commonly installed shell command that supports zipping?

It would probably be easiest to write a script to run my program then
a compression program..

hints and advice, as always, quite welcome

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silangdon <me@you.twang> writes:

> Bit of a unix newbie so....
>
> I've written a program to create a load of data that will get
> transferred to a Windows workstation at some point. To save on
> transfer times (+ the data will end up on a handheld WinCE machine)
> bosses now requesting zipping of data files.
>
>  - We don't own the Unix server that the program will run on. User
> will make the exe from sources that we provide
>  - Zip is the preferred compression format, would rather avoid human
> intervention at either end
>  - The program creates several data files so stdout isn't expecially
> practicable.
>
> So, is there a commonly installed shell command that supports zipping?

Yes, it's called "zip", syntax reminiscent of pkzip.

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silangdon <me@you.twang> wrote:

>Bit of a unix newbie so....
>
>I've written a program to create a load of data that will get
>transferred to a Windows workstation at some point. To save on
>transfer times (+ the data will end up on a handheld WinCE machine)
>bosses now requesting zipping of data files.
>
> - We don't own the Unix server that the program will run on. User
>will make the exe from sources that we provide
> - Zip is the preferred compression format, would rather avoid human
>intervention at either end
> - The program creates several data files so stdout isn't expecially
>practicable.
>
>
>So, is there a commonly installed shell command that supports zipping?
>
>It would probably be easiest to write a script to run my program then
>a compression program..
>
>hints and advice, as always, quite welcome

I have found that even MSWin versions of zip will extract files from
standard *nix .tar.gz files.  I am pretty certain that versions as old
as WinZip8 can do this.  You may not have to add any zip software at
all to the Unix server.
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