How do you make dos compress files into a zipfile?

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I know which servers I am going to use and the e-mails and stuff but I need to know the commands to do it blah.

Someone help me!

I don't think(or rather, i'm not sure) if DOS has a zip compressor budled with it. I do remember that eariler versions included a compression/decomression scheme of some sort, but not zip. Your best bet would be to aquire some third-party software, preferably OSS. If you can't compile or get the binaries for your DOS version, a command-line version of winzip or winrar should be more than sufficient. One question: Are you actually running DOS or are you referring to the command interpreter that comes with most Windows implementations(which is not DOS, but rather, an interpreter that acts as a DOS emulator)?

Look into pkunzip for DOS