I'm using the following winrar command line to create zip archives:
rar.exe a -df -ep -ag[yyyyMMddhhmmss] -ms[txt] C:\MyZipFile.zip C:\tmp\MyFiles*.txt
The archives created are in RAR format instead of ZIP. Is there a way to create regular ZIP and not RAR archives?
Make certain you are using WinRAR.exe and not Rar.exe.
If you are using the command line to do this make sure you type:
winrar a -afzip c:\test.zip c:\test.csv
not:
a -afzip c:\test.zip c:\test.csv
It works for me. I also got it to work in SSIS.
So rar.exe is currently unable to create zip files by itself only by calling in the Windows version it is possible.