but i don't think that the "XP compressed folder" you refer to is a zipped folder. maybe i am missunderstanding you, but on my xp box in the windows folder there are a bunch of compressed folders, which are not zipped. because of the way i have setup my explorer they apear in blue. when i go to propperties on those folders, in the advanced attribute section, there are options for compress and encryped.

again, maybe i am missunderstanding you.



>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:
>>
>>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)
>>
>>hope that helps.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Can anybody tell me how you would create an XP compressed folder from within VFP?