>>>Dana,
>>> I am sorry.. I mistook your last message.. I however, would look at the freeware stuff, since there are a few out there.. Heck, can you NOT use the pkzip version out for windows?? Or do you have to use their library??
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>>>I would NOT look at foxsqz becuase of earlier points I made (need pkzip compatability, or else you have the VHS-Beta thing in software too..)..
>>>
>>>Thanx!
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>>Well, the library they put out for programmers does not work with PKZip zip files. Go figure that out. It even says so in the ads. I guess they don't want competition from their own product or something. Talk about paranoid!
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>>As for the Windows version of PKZip, I haven't really used it. I don't know if you can interface with it, but given PKWare's previously mentioned paranoia, I seriously wonder. :)
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>>I purchased the DynaZip 32 bit ActiveX library, and what little I've done with it so far has more than satisfied me. It's easy to work with, compatible, and it works with VFP. I had a simple app up and running within a half hour on my first try!
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>Well, what was the $$?? I am looking at a few alternatives, and may even look at the freeware version of pkzip floating around, to see if it works with VFP.. It is usable with VB..

PKZip for Windows has no command line switches at all, and I don't think it supports OLE Automation or DDE. I talked to a guy at a convention who represented some company that makes PKZip for UNIX and many other platforms that aren't windows. He didn't know why PKLib, or whatever it's called, made files that weren't .ZIPs. That library consists of .DLLs, not an .OCX interface. I don't know if its use in vfp is supported.

If you have a compression tool you like that uses a different format, that could actually be a good thing, if you didn't want winzip users messing around with your backups. You could think of it as a simple, not very rigorous, security feature.