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Creating & Extracting ZIP files?
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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
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Are you thinking of the 'compress' and 'extract' functions in 3.1? Oops, I think it was 'expand.exe'

>>OK. I had the old CAB-files in the back of my head, I guess we are thinking of the same.
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>I've thought about (and did take a cursory look at) the old setup.app from FPW through ReFox. I didn't find what I was looking for, but then I really didn't try that hard.:-)
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>>>>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.
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>>>This was a windows component (not PKZip) that came with the OS. As I recall, like PKZip, you'd get a DOS window. The compression ratio nor the speed wasn't anywhere near as good as PKZip's.
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>>>I believe it was used for creating and executing installation programs at the time.
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