Hi Rick,

>Then again - why not just shell out to the 7zip exe?
>It has pretty good command line control especially when you use CreateProcess to wait and capture the command line output and control the shell window.

Thanks for your contribution.

The program just spits out and handle xml-based resources. I'd be glad to offer a clean alternative way to store the data as compressed stuff. This is certainly NOT mandatory.

I dislike the idea of shell manipulation within a VFP standalone end-user-controlled app when it comes to data manipulation (no issue when it comes to data admin or, of course, anything in a server process). Possibly because the few COM-based components that I use extensively within the app just work so well as well:)

Daniel