Re: Zipping files woes and evils. :)

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use JAR.

There's an example of using it with QSH here:

https://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=143


Bradley V. Stone
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:30 PM Jason Olson <josys36@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are times when you get so annoyed with IBM i that you just wanna run
> out of the room screaming. OK I'm being overdramatic here but I am kinda
> annoyed by one thing in particular.
>
> I used to use the zip utility from here,
>
> http://uzaemon.d.dooo.jp/#download
>
> to zip and unzip .zip files on IBM i.  However, that product has not been
> updated to the latest ZLIB in a long period of time. So when I noticed that
> IBM gave us the CPYTOARCF commands I was happy, but you can't supply that a
> password. And, you always get the full directory path in the .zip and there
> isn't a way to stop that that I know of.
>
> So what do others do for their .zip files? Do you use a commerical product
> or are you using ZLIB with minizip included? Are you building your own? I'd
> love to know as I hate using 3rd party apps if I don't have to.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason E. Olson
> IBM i Engineer/Developer
> josys36@xxxxxxxxx
> 480.223.2952
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