>Hi all of you,
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>I am looking for the most adequate way to zip resources from within a VFP application. A compact lib that can be depended upon and forgotten... What is the best solution to-day when zipping vfp-generated strings and files?
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>The application builds, massage and consumes xml resources. I am looking for a way to zip the xml resources when located on a local disk. Ideally the tool would allow the resource to be unzipped and fed immediately as an xml string into the xml parser used when reading local resources ("MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0").
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>The library needs to be embedded into a molebox-ed app. ActiveX and standard dll(s) are thus preferred to fll(s). No problem to buy if the stuff is inexpensive by the way.

Long user of dFPUG solution, should be 50 or 100€ for non-members. Did not look into other solutions, as we have a connection with dFPUG head honcho Rainer Becker, but is built on zLib C code. Has 1 fll, optional Gui form (vcx) showing progress in detail. Often used with dirs containing many normal and a few large dbfs, able to crunch dirs well above 15GB, faster with bigger files.

Single threaded, so compared to RAR slower on current machines.

If DOS wndows popping up all over the screen are no problem (inhouse?) I'd steer WinRAR via command line options. Faster, free and I am not a beautiful GUI fixated dev ;-))

regards

thomas