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Chapter 51
`zip.ss`: Creating `zip` Files

To load: `(require (lib "zip.ss"))`

This library provides a facility for creating zip files, which are compatible with both Windows and Unix and Mac OS X. The actual compression is implemented by `deflate` (see Chapter 14). The most useful entry point for this library is `zip`.

`(zip``` `zip-file path `···```)` P R O C E D U R E

Creates `zip-file`, which holds the complete content of all `path`s. The given `path`s are all expected to be relative path names of existing directories and files (i.e., relative to the current directory). If a nested path is provided as a `path`, its ancestor directories are also added to the resulting zip file, up to the current directory (using `pathlist-closure`; see section 11.3.3 in PLT MzScheme: Language Manual). Files are packaged as usual for zip files, including permission bits for both Windows and Unix and Mac OS X. The permission bits are determined by ``file-or-directory-permissions`` (section 11.3.3 in PLT MzScheme: Language Manual), so it does not preserve the distinction between owner/group/other permissions; also, symbolic links are always followed.

`(zip->output``` `paths``` [`output-port`]`)` P R O C E D U R E

Zips each of the given `paths`, and packages it as a zip ``file'' that is written directly to the `output-port` or to the current output port if `output-port` is not given. Also, the specified `paths` are included as-is; if a directory is specified, its content is not automatically added, and nested directories are added without parent directories.

`(zip-verbose``` [`on?`]`)` P R O C E D U R E

A parameter that controls output during a zip operation. Setting this parameter to a true value will cause `zip` to display (on the current error port) the filename that is currently being compressed.

(See also section 44.)