Re: [cobalt-users] a compression problem!!!

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/12/00 12:50 PM, Martin Surasky at msurasky@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I have a problem that seems very simple to solve and... shame on me, I can't
> do it....
> I have a large site in my PC that I want to Upload to my Cobalt and I
> thought that it would be easier to make a tar.gz with all the files I have
> in my PC and upload them in that way (or maybe to send a .zip to the server
> and decompress the file once uploaded)...
> 1. With the first option, I couldn't find a tar for DOS that actually
> works!!! (even though I found the gzip for PC to compress the files, without
> a tar it's worthless to my need, because gzip doesn't bundle files into one
> compressed file but it does a one to one compression)....
> 2. The second option (do a .zip and decompress the file on Linux seemed to
> work at first glance, I found the "unstuff" command that decompress .zip
> files on Linux but if I upload the .zip as a binary, the .cgi files doesn't
> work when decompressed with "unstuff" and when I send the .zip file in ascii
> transfer mode, the "unstuff" doesn't work at all!!!....

There should be version of both tar and gzip from gnu.org that work on
x86/dos/windows.  I have downloaded them myself.

ALso, I think that WinZip supports this method.

There is also a unzip/zip util for MIPS linux.

If you check on rpmfind.net for zip on MIPS it should pop up, or even
ftp.cobalt.net (probably in /pub/contrib).

-k