Portable Compression / Encryption Utility

[Dave Hall]

Dave Hall wrote in message ...
>Excuse the cross post, but none of the news groups is exactly right on the
>issue I'm asking about. I'll take it off line if I get any leads. I'm
tring
>to find a compression / encryption utility like PKZIP that is supported on
>Macintosh and NT. On the NT side, I need to bundle a few files and password
>protect the compressed file, then email it to a number of MAC clients. I
may
>also post these zip files on my IIS server and let them pull them with
their
>browsers. The MAC clients are currently all using Netscape browsers and
CE's
>QuickMail through a UNIX SMTP gateway. The process is done manually now in
a
>completely MAC environment and it's only EMail, not browser based yet. It
>takes one person one whole day every week to prepare and distribute
>everything. It's only going to get worse as our customer base grows. (They
>are the destination of the Email.) I am working on automating the process
>under NT with IIS and windows scripting. They are currently using Stuff-It
>as a compression / encrytion tool on the MACs. I can't find a scriptable
>version of Stuff-it for NT, nor can I find PKZip compatible MAC software. I
>can't beleive that nothing like this exists yet. I'd settle for just about
>anything at this point. I could put IE4 on the MACs if necessary, I could
>use any IE4 or Netscape plugins on the MACs that someone may know about. I
>could possibly issue client certificates instead of passwords if that
helps,
>but I'd need a few hints on how to go about this. Maybe there's some
>portable standard for secure EMail. I'd consider just about anything anyone
>could suggest. (Don't bother suggesting we replace the MACs with NTWS,
we're
>already going that way, but I need a solution for the interum 6 months.) I
>really appreciate even any slight hints someone can give me. Please CC any
>postings to DHa...@tampabay.rr.com.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Dave
>
>

[Omar Chavez]

Dave,

I don't see a major problem in what you're trying to accomplish (we do just
that continously).

UnZipit! is a Macintosh program that automatically decompress PC "zipped"
files.
OR
Stuffit Deluxe for Windows NT works like a charm. If you want to script it, use
FrontierLand.

I'm going through a "Forward Migration:" dumping NTWS's for iMacs. ;-)

Omar Chavez
Technical Services Director
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