Help with Auto update ZIP file?

Boofo · Post by *Boofo » 2003-12-08, 05:07 UTC

Is there a way to update a ZIP file with a couple of updated files in the archive? What I am trying to do is through a batch file run nightly, I want to be able to add 2 files to a ZIP file that are already there, just update the ZIP with newer versions of the 2 files. And have it do it automatically. I use the interal ZIP in TC for this manually right now. I can do it either ZIP or RAR, preferrably ZIP, though. Thanks in advance.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2003-12-08, 21:33 UTC

I recommend info-zip for batch jobs:

http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/

Boofo · Post by *Boofo » 2003-12-09, 00:14 UTC

Thank you, sir.

Hanky · Post by *Hanky » 2003-12-09, 00:15 UTC

InfoZip development merely stopped in 2001. An alternative could be 7-zip, which is under GNU-LGPL licence.

Boofo · Post by *Boofo » 2003-12-09, 02:42 UTC

I tried 7-zip just now and it won't work for what I need. It doesn't allow absolute paths and I need to copy files from drive c to drive d. I checked out info-zip, too, and since it seems it hasn't been updated since 1999, I decided to go with RAR. Thanks to everyone who responded here.