Where do I get Zip.exe?

[DaleDe]

Or even easier just do start - run and type in cmd. That is the command line parser and then you can use zip directly. http://info-zip.org/ is the site that documents zip. I use this for command line work and 7zip for windows work. 7zip can open an epub and even let you change things inside.

Dale

[wannabee]

Originally Posted by Jellby

But that is not a requisite for ePUB. The only requisite is that "mimetype" is stored first, and not compressed.

You are all really confusing me. I have never used a zip program or script in the 10 months I've been making ePubs.

I'm using Windows 7. I select all the elements for the package and right click ensuring I click on the mimetype file and choose "send to" then in the drop down menu select"compressed (zipped) folder"

The result will be a zip file titled "mimetype.zip" it will validate every time.

If the resulting zip package is titled with the name of any of the other elements of the package it will not validate.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by wannabee

I'm using Windows 7. I select all the elements for the package and right click ensuring I click on the mimetype file and choose "send to" then in the drop down menu select"compressed (zipped) folder"

The result will be a zip file titled "mimetype.zip" it will validate every time.

That's probably a fortunate side effect of how "send to compressed folder" works in Windows 7. I guess the file you right-click on is stored first, and it is not compressed because it's very small.

[wannabee]

Yeah! and I've been trying to tell folk around here about it and nobody listens. A lot easier than all that crap everyone else has been doing with zip here and zip there and zippydydoda don't you think. Give it a go why don't cha.

Edit: right click!

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by wannabee

Yeah! and I've been trying to tell folk around here about it and nobody listens. A lot easier than all that crap everyone else has been doing with zip here and zip there and zippydydoda don't you think. Give it a go why don't cha.

Because it's based on an undocumented (I guess) feature that just happens to work. It's better to first know what should be done and how to do it, and then look for easier/quicker ways to do it.

And not everyone uses Windows

[Toxaris]

It it can stop all of a sudden with an update, or it is combined with a setting you have done (could even be in a totally different place...).

I believe some time ago there was also a tool posted here to create an epub from a bunch of xhtml files. ePubpack or something like that.

[wannabee]

OK I get it. Meanwhile, I'll just zip the packages up with one click.

[desktopuser]

Originally Posted by wannabee

OK I get it. Meanwhile, I'll just zip the packages up with one click.

I agree with the above users, mentioning about Winzip and Winrar, what is they can't do, that the commandline version of zip 2.3 and unzip 5.42 can do.
I really don't understand, i guess people who like using commandline zip files are usually geeks. lol

[eschwartz]

Err, no -- because it is guaranteed to work properly. Then again, why not just use an EPUB editor, like Sigil or calibre's editor.


Possibly, because this thread is really really old.

[Dr. Drib]

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