>Registry is already part of my project...
>
>Stepping through the program I can see this as the commandline:
>.cCommandLine ="C:\PROGRAM Files\WINZIP8\winzip32.exe -min -a -en "A:\tabback.zip" company.* employ.* test.*"
>
>Yes I know winzip8 is not standard but it's still found
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>If I try for a return value: lcreturn= owinzip.AddFiles( destin, "company.* employ.* test.*")
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>I get .T.
>
>Running the exe through the development environment fails also!??
>
>Cheerio

The command line looks fine. FWIW I can run your scenario as a PRG, as an EXE from the command window, and as a standalone EXE and in each case it creates the zip file as expected.

BTW this is not an issue with embedded quotes, as it might seem from the way you looked at the cCommandLine property (I'm guessing you did this in the debugger). You can display the command line with ?o.getwinzipcommandline() after o.addfiles() has been called, and it will be shown as it actually is, without the leading and trailing quotes.

A return value of .T. simply means that the program ran to completion without any errors that it could detect. In your original post you said that "nothing" happens when you run this as an EXE. By "nothing" do you mean that your A:\tabback.zip file is being created but there's nothing in it, or that is it not being created at all?