tar to zip Utility

[Rus Foster]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, MD  Haq wrote:

> Hi,
>     I am taking the backup of the users home directory in tar format
>     using a software, but most of them need the files in zip format. for
>     this I need to untar it in tmp folder and then zip it to give it to
>     the user. Is there any utility to convert tar file to a zip file.

Hi,
I think the answer for this is a no as I've just tried reading files in
from STDIN with zip and it doesn't like it. The best I can suggest is
write a shell script to automate it

Of course Winzip can read tar.gz


Rus
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