>Dynazip comes with Activex (.OCX) components. These are just "wrappers" for the ZIP and UNZIP DLL's. You could directly make the calls to the DLL's without using the wrapper activex components or create a class for doing this.
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>Then you can CREATEOBJECT() your class and call it's methods.
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>Using DOS is very unreliable as if the length of the string is long you will find that the program fails with errrors.
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>We used to use ARJ and purchased Dynazip due to errors. Their support while not being overboard is very good.
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>I recommend it.
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>Bernard

Bernard,

As I stated, I do not want to use the ActiveX controls, as they require forms. Since I posted the original message I hacve figured out how to make DynaZip work by calling the Automation Server.