>Many thanks to those with suggestions regarding what appear to be path problems while using DynaZip in the Executable version of a program.
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>Is the execuatble able to open a smaller number of files than the same program in the interactive environment.
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>Is there a way to provide for opening more files in the .exe

That's controlled by the operating system - the CONFIG.SYS in Win9x. The FILES= entry puts a ceiling on open files; it can be as large as 254.