How do I compress a directory?

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Published on 2011-02-21T06:00:05Z Indexed on 2011/02/21 15:33 UTC
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I'm trying to compress a directory and ftp it to a windows ftp.

I have tried every tar command I can find to compress a directory. It appears to be ok. Then I transfer it and view it's contents using Winrar. Winrar keeps telling me the file is corrupted. I have viewed other .gz or .bz2 files using winrar but for some odd reason I can't get it to work.

I would prefer just to have it zip the files so they have a .zip extension but even then when i try to browse it's contents both windows and winrar claim it's corrupt.

Does anyone else have a suggestion as to something else to try?

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