>>I am working on a FoxPro program to gather information on collectibles for sale on ebay, and I want to grab lots of pictures. Given my somewhat limited hardware, perhaps the best way to go is to keep the pictures in a zip file, archiving them and extracting them programmatically as needed.
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>>Are there any third party products to manage a zip file from within FoxPro program?
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>I'm using pkzip2.5, which is completely command line oriented, and I'm building the command line in Fox, and launching it using Ed Rauh's Api_AppRun class. Works like a charm, except that it appears on the taskbar briefly, and if you call it repeatedly it may occassionally steal focus from your top level window (i.e. I'm zipping all the data files from within an app, and answering email while it works, and have some trouble typing, not always).

What about licencing? Do you require that each user MUST have pkzip installed
or do you distribute pkzip with your application ?