Try the (free!) zip (command line) from http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ This has relative directories just like tar e.g. from the v root directory, something like zip -r v121_lib_win_egcs.zip lib/mingw32 includew should do something like what is wanted. Andy -- Dr Andrew Sleigh |Email: P.A.Sleigh@leeds.ac.uk School of Civil Engineering |Tel: 0113 2332398 University of Leeds, |Fax: 0113 2332265 Leeds, LS2 9JT. |WWW: http://www.efm.leeds.ac.uk/~as