That is a relief. That I had not missed anything good, I mean. I have 'always' used PKZIP myself, but mostly I simply RUN it, I don't mind the DOS window flashing for a few seconds.

>>Relly? I did not know that. Or are you in fact talking about something related to 'compressed drives'?
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>No, there was a file compression call. I don't have the 3.1 docs right now and can't locate it on my drive.
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>It was so bad that I ended up using WinExec() to run a compression program (PKZip).
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>>>>Hi Michael
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>>>>Do you know something that I don't know? AFAIK ZIP creation and extraction is NOT built into any OS natively. However if you have for instance Zipmagic installed your computer, Zipmagic takes over and make it look like it is done natively.
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>>>Actually, even Win 3.1 through the API supported both compression and extraction, but not of the ZIP format (and not very good at that).