tar to zip Utility

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. 

Thanks in Advance,
Haq

[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


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[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. 

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