zip archiving utility

[Philippe Landau]

>>how can i zip a directory with its contents in linux ?
> The GUI method.
> In Ubuntu, using Nautilus, right click on any folder and choose "Create
> Archive...". In the box that comes up, change the file ending
> from .tar.gz to .zip as well as giving it whatever name you want (it
> defaults to using the name of the folder it's compressing) and press
> Create, that's more or less it. 
excellent, that worked well, thank you David, Jonathan and Bernhard.

kind regards     philippe

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(so now if anyone wants i can send you the complete zipped book
George Bush - The Unauthorized Biography by Webster Tarpley).