Everybody else may know this, but MacOS X includes the command-line utility to make Windows-compatible ZIP files. It works a lot like tar, but without needing any switches.
> zip {target file} {source files}
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Or, right click (or control+click) and select ‘Creative Archive of …’. That’s it.
Dan, try uploading that to a webserver and extracting the file; It usually makes a mess.
Or use:
> zip {target file} *
and the target file will be appended with “.zip”
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