Will zipping give you any compression? If images are gif or jpg will it be worth while?

__Stephen

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>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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>Thanks.
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>Rick Graves