From: Eric Durant <edurant@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: How to compress to ZIP instead of gzip?
Date: 06 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT
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global3@my-deja.com wrote:
> use LWP::Simple;
> 
> @args = ("/usr/contrib/bin/gzip", "-q9", "file.txt");
> system(@args) == 0
>         or die "system @args failed: $?";
> 
> My question is how can I compress the file into a zip file
> instead of a gzip file. I searched CPAN but could not find
> anything to to that. Is there anyway to modify my code above
> to create a .zip file instead of a gzip file?

Besides what was written in the other follow-ups, keep in mind that zip
has different default behavior than gzip or compress.  If you want zip
to behave more like gzip, you'll want to use -o (to preserve the
time-stamp on the archive) and -m (to delete the source file after
compression).

-q and -9 have pretty much the same meaning for zip as they do for gzip.

-- Eric Durant
   http://www.edurant.com/