>Hi Gregory,
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>Thanks a lot for the input. Looks like that could be a part of my trip in the area of data compression:)
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>Other than that I understand that the do-it-all stuff may reside in the chilkat swiss knife. Which appears to have everything I am looking for in terms of functionality including offering in-memory support AES-encoded support for sensitive resources as well as all kinds of zip functionality.
>
>http://www.example-code.com/foxpro/zip.asp
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>At a cost, cof course. The bill is limited but the size of the do-it-all lib is no small feat (over 7 Mbts). If anyone could jump in and confirm the chilkat package is robust, that could certainly close the thread.
>
>Daniel

Hi Daniel,

we have been using Chilkat controls (zip, ftp/s, sftp, crypt2, http2) in production for years.

Hank