>Exactly! The GUI knows how to deal with it, but not the command line or internal COPY commands.
I believe MS licensed code from the makers of DynaZip and used it to enhance the XP Windows Explorer to make working with .zip files more transparent - as claimed below, on the left:
http://www.innermedia.com/dz/index.htmIf you can automate Explorer that would probably do the trick - maybe the XP FileSystemObject has some methods earlier versions of Windows don't have. Just a SWAG.
Regards. Al
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