>We have a process that downloads new and changed files from FTP site. I suggested to zip files first, but now there is a question how can we do it remotely.
Not easy through FTP as that would be a security breach. You could run a web-service (remote procedure) tha does the ZIPping with some ZIP DLL at the server, or whomever delivers those files to the server could just deliver ZIPs instead.
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