These are 2 very different animals. Try opening a folder (or on your desktop) right-clicking and choosing New and then at the bottom you should see "Compressed (zipped) folder". The problem seems to be that only the GUI knows its not really a folder, but just a special file type and deals with it accordingly. The COPY commands, etc., don't know what to do with it.


>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.
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>>Hi Gunnar,
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>>I looked at that, but that applies to a different compression than a zipped folder. That's NTFS file compression, not zip compression
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>>Thanks anyways.
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>>>hello Fred
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>>>look in the msdn help at:
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>>>DeviceIoControl (kernel32.dll)
>>>- FSCTL_SET_COMPRESSION
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>>>and
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>>>"Compact: Compresses and Uncompresses NTFS Files and Folders"
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>>>(i have vfp 6, so i don't know if those helps are the same in vfp8)
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>>>hope that helps.
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>>>>Can anybody tell me how you would create an XP compressed folder from within VFP?