>As far as zipping... could you write a small app in vfp that you could launch from the Dos app? You could just RUN the exe.

The problem with making a VFP app would be having to install it via CD with the VFP library files.. and fear of overhead issues after having loaded up the FPD26 runtime.. and then having to load up the VFP runtime.. its something that we've considered.. but we're just worried about some of the Win98 machines that are still out there.. am I worrying about nothing? -- Len