Hi Gunnar,

I looked at that, but that applies to a different compression than a zipped folder. That's NTFS file compression, not zip compression

Thanks anyways.

>hello Fred
>
>look in the msdn help at:
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>DeviceIoControl (kernel32.dll)
>- FSCTL_SET_COMPRESSION
>
>and
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>"Compact: Compresses and Uncompresses NTFS Files and Folders"
>
>(i have vfp 6, so i don't know if those helps are the same in vfp8)
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>hope that helps.
>
>
>
>>Can anybody tell me how you would create an XP compressed folder from within VFP?