>Thank you for your tip. The command-line utility to use is WZUNZIP.EXE.
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>However, WZUNZIP needs you to have WINZIP installed. Since I am distributing my application to users who may not have WINZIP installed, then this becomes a problem. I am thinking of using WINZIP Self Extractor 2.2, which is a utility separate from WINZIP. I just downloaded an evaluation copy to see if this works for me.
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>Thanks again for your tip; I really appreciate it.
It doesn't always have to be ZIP; there are formats, like RAR or CAB, which typically use around 30% less space for the same files. RAR is a proprietary format, and a commercial program (
www.rarsoft.com); CAB seems to be a free format, and I think you should be able to find compression programs that support it, on
www.download.com,
www.tucows.com, or similar sites, for free.
(I used PowerArchiver a while ago, but the latest version is no longer free.)
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