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

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> 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!!!....
>
> Incredible but true... I still cannot solve it!!!
>
> Thanks to everybody!!
>
> Martín Surasky

You might try
http://www.pkware.com/shareware/pkzip_unix.html

Zeffie