Exactly! The GUI knows how to deal with it, but not the command line or internal COPY commands.
>Ok, i think i understand you now: you don't whant to work with ntsf compressed folder, you whant the 'zip folder'.
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>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.
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>>Yes, that is an NTFS compressed folder. No problem there. It's the zipped "folders" that it can't copy to.
>>
>>
>>>well...
>>>i did the following successfully from the vfp6 command window
>>>copy file c:\test.txt to c:\windows\$NtServicePackUninstall$\test.txt
>>>
>>>"$NtServicePackUninstall$" is 1 of those compressed folders i was talking about.
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"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?
