preserve file ownership with the "zip" command?
 

Reading the man pages, I have been able to preserve the permissions but not the ownership.

anyone has an idea? or a suggestion for an alternative to "zip"?

thx :)

You may try gzip or bzip2.

tar has an extract option --same-owner, so that if you used tar with the compression program of your choice, you can keep the ownership the same.
when extracting
tar zxvpf filename.tar.gz --same-owner


edit: great. i didn't even realize that gzip and bzip2 kept ownership by default.