>>>>>>>Thanks that works
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>>>>>>Are you saying that you needed to loop manually through the directory structure? Doesn't sound like a correct approach to me.
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>>>>>No just needed to zip up 2 directories
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>>>>Robert was doing some freelance work for me - tells me that Sergey's answer worked fine
>>>
>>>What I don't understand - I used that library long time ago so don't remember details. If we have directory with subdirectories - there should be a flag in fll to archive all of them in one shot. If there is no such flag, then it seems a serious flaw to me.
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>>You could well be right but Robert who was doing the work for me could see no such flag - do you have a better product to use?
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>>Thanks
>>
>>Colin
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>I haven't being doing Zip from VFP recently - I remember I read a blog by Doug Hennig some time ago about zipping from VFP - so, this may be an alternative.
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>http://doughennig.blogspot.com/2006/07/xzip-free-zipping-utility.html
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>If you needed only two directories and Craig's fll solved the problem, I think it's OK.

Thanks for your help as always