Ok, i think i understand you now: you don't whant to work with ntsf compressed folder, you whant the 'zip folder'.
hmm, i don't think the 'zip folder' is a folder at all. i think the drag-drop you were discribing earlier is a nice feuture from the explorer where in the background the zip.dll is beeing called to ADD a file to the zip file.
>Yes, that is an NTFS compressed folder. No problem there. It's the zipped "folders" that it can't copy to.
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>>well...
>>i did the following successfully from the vfp6 command window
>>copy file c:\test.txt to c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$\test.txt
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>>"$NtServicePackUninstall$" is 1 of those compressed folders i was talking about.
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>>>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.
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>>>>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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>>>>again, maybe i am missunderstanding you.
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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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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?
