>Man, try to find Zip in any search anywhere and you get every file there is because their all zipped.
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>Anyway, I'm looking for a product that I can use to zip data into and out of memo fields both for space savings and for the checksum error checking. I also need it to do the same with seperate data files that I can read and write as needed. I need to do this on the fly from within VFP and without the user even knowing it's happening. I know it's out there.
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>Many thanks in advance.

Most people use an ActiveX product called DynaZip. Try a search on that.