>I believe there might be a question of legality (A licensing issue) using this technique.
>

If we own a WinZip license, do we have a problem using this approach? Should we better consider using WinZip manager?

Thanks.

>>I tried Yuri's suggestion... VERY COOL and FREE! WinZip will open the files if you need to verify the results. I also noticed it compressed the subdirectories as well. I don't know if you can do single files, but if you can create a directory and compress just that directory it works great.
>>
>>

>>*To zip file
>>
>>cFileZip = "C:\temp2\D401001F.ZIP"
>>cSource = "c:\temp1\"
>>strtofile(chr(0x50)+chr(0x4B)+chr(0x05)+chr(0x06)+replicate(chr(0),18),cFileZip)
>>o=CREATEOBJECT("shell.application")
>>FOR EACH ofile IN o.NameSpace(cSource).items
>>o.NameSpace(cFileZip).copyhere(ofile)
>>ENDFOR
>>
>>
>>*Unzip files
>>
>>
>>cFileZip = "C:\temp\D401001F.ZIP"
>>cDestination = "c:\temp\"
>>
>>o=CREATEOBJECT("shell.application")
>>FOR EACH ofile IN o.NameSpace(cFileZip).items
>>o.NameSpace(cDestination).copyhere(ofile)
>>ENDFOR
>>

>>
>>>I need to incorporate zipping into an app in vfp 9. I have used several things in the past, but wanted feedback on what users have done lately. It has been a while since I had to incorporate this functionality.
>>>
>>>TIA!