>Does anyone know hoe to programmatically zip files from within VFP?
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>RUNning pkzip 2.04g is not a solution as we need to preserve long file names.
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>Thanks in advance for any input!!!

You can get the libraries free - I can't remember where at the moment - I will look into it. Another set of libraries called ZLib is available but that requires DLLs to be distributed. There was a thread here some months ago which threw up these answers.