I thought about using the RUN command to zip some files using PKZip software (DOS version) in Visual FoxPro 5.

For example:
RUN pkzip c:\zipfiles\mydata.zip c:\datafile\mydata.dbf

But what happens is that the FoxPro software executables get zipped instead of my data file. I guess it is because I have those parameters following the PKZip executable and they are not being used nor seen by Visual FoxPro's RUN command.

How can I fix the problem. Is there a better way to run PKZip (DOS version) from Visual FoxPro? Help please. And thank you.