>>>I was wondering if there is a cheap or free active x control, dll, or fll files that does compression from inside vfp without having to do a run comm and? Is there any utilities like this out there?
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>>DynaZip, by Inner Media, is about $250 - $300. I don't know what would be cheaper. Inner Media actually supports its use in vfp, which I gather is very unusual for such things. The costs of looking around and fiddling with controls that might not work could be greater. The one e-mail I needed to send to Inner Media tech support was answered a day later by someone who knew vfp.
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>I use WINZIP32 in my applications. Single user copy is ~$29 and the price goes down if you are buying site license copies. You can use API calls to execute winzip and pass whatever parameters that you need to. I can send some code examples for calling winzip from FPW 2.x and VFP if anyone wants to go that route.
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>I've never used DynaZip but it seems to be popular solution.
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I thought WinZip 6.3 had a very limited set of command line parameters that left out important things like disk spanning.

I'd be interested to see those code samples, just for the sake of learning more about API calls.