tar to zip Utility

[Alan]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 02:32, 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. 

Zip will probably strip all the permissions off the files.  I also doubt
it will understand symlinks or other non-file files.

Why do they need zip format?  WinZip will understand tar.gz format. 

-- 
"Push that big, big granite sphere way up there from way down here!
Gasp and sweat and pant and wheeze! Uh-oh! Feel momentum cease!
Watch it tumble down and then roll the boulder up again!"
    - The story of Sisyphus by Dr. Zeus in Frazz 12/18/2003