Walter:

You are right -- the EXE selfextractor does not require Winzip on the receiving end. I was thinking about the sending end -- e.g., if the app would need to zip files/data and send it, more or less automatically.

Pertti

>Hi perti,
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>The winzip selfextractor does not require Winzip to be installed. The question here is simply how to extract without any dialog.
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>Walter,
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>>>Hi all:
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>>>I want to run a WINZIP self-extracting file (an EXE file) without showing the default window that asks for the target directory and some settings (such as overwrite file, etc.). Instead, I'd like to run the self-extractor from my VFP application and pass parameters for the target folders and settings.
>>>
>>>Any advice/tips would be highly appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thank you.
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>>Winzip, however you use it, expects Winzip to be installed on any machine you load your program on.
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>>I use the commercial product DynaZip for this purpose -- it is a self-contained ActiveX component and works great. If you can't shell out the USD350 or so for it, check out http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ for a free compression utility (no dependencies, just a dll -file)
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>>Regards,