>>>Can anybody tell me how you would create an XP compressed folder from within VFP?
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>>Never mind! It's really pretty simple:
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ofs = CREATEOBJECT("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>ofs.CreateTextFile("C:\test.zip")

>>or even
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STRTOFILE("","c:\test2.zip")

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>Interesting. Would this "text file" have the correct format - or perhaps be over-written by a correct ZIP file later?

I don't know. Now I'm running into a problem as to how you programmatically *put* files into this zipped folder. I can put files into it just fine through Explorer with drag & drop, but I can't copy files into it, either from a program or from a Windows cmd window. Any ideas?