Hi Joe. The purpose is to enable the customer to occasionally review archived files on a small network system. Rarely used...once or so monthly. You are correct. If they used the files daily I would recommend buying a big disk stack and skipping the compression.

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I am a little curious. Why do you want to do this? There will be (loss of) speed issues. And it will complicate things a lot I think. For instance, when you access a file, do you intend to expand it first, then access the expanded files? This would raise many issues...

Joe

>Is there a way to zip and unzip tables from within Foxpro or Fox exes? I found nothing under the help index.
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>Windows has its own compression tool. We ought to be able to call it from VFP, but how?
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>The goal is to enable a client to operate upon compressed data without manually decompressing/recompressing. Any ideas?