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>>I need to be able to do the same thing. I can’t distribute the data in zip format and expect the user to take 40 minutes unzipping it and also expecting him to have 6 Gigs of available disk space not counting space for the indexes that will need to be created.
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>>Any ideas or theories about the file type might be and if there is any way that I can do the same thing via Visual FoxPro (or VB or C# if I have to)?
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>I don't know if it works with VFP but you could look at http://www.xitech-europe.co.uk/compaxion/index.html

Al,

Thanks. This looks similiar to ZipMagic which I am currently looking at. Compaxion doesn't list their price nor do they have a demo version but I have emailed them to find out more. I see that they also sell ReFox and FoxFix so I would assume that Compaxion would work with VFP.

Thanks for the feedback.

Ed