Archiving and unarchiving onto hard disk.

Zip files on UNIX, unzip on PC and create.

Using zip/pkzip

The problem with this is that directories are created afresh on the hard disk and thus modification times aren't preserved. Files to keep their modification times. Also there is some conversion of names in to uppercase, which is a little annoying.

The following zip command in UNIX

zip -rpy test.zip 00_Needs_Work/* > zip.out 2>&1

zips up, preserving the directory structure, but also saves the symbolic links as links.

Using tar

Some DOS versions of tar have problems, use at your own risk.

Physics Computing
2000-06-29