I do not know where to find a free zip component but I have some
alternatives.

Is the copy of Winzip you are using a fullly registered version? If
not, then it will get stuck waiting for the user to press <Enter> on
the command-line side. I believe pkware's command-line program will
work even when not registered. Also, If you can find PowerArchiver
2000 (when it was still freeware) you can use that.

If you are going to be running on a business server you should just buy
the program (Winzip, PowerArchiver, PKWare, etc.)

Jeremy D. Pavleck (dot dot) wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can find a free component to ZIP files up? I
was
> trying to just use exec (To capture the output) with Winzip's
command-line
> add on but alas, when I put it in a sub it just doesn't seem to want
to
> work. I'd prefer a COM anyway - so any ideas?

Re: ZIP Component? by Jeremy

Jeremy
Wed Aug 18 09:16:49 CDT 2004

Yup, we own a site license for it. It's funny - it worked fine on it's own,
but when I moved it to a Sub it got "stuck". 3 developers looked at it and
said it looks fine, and I tried a half dozen or so different ways of doing
all to no avail.

But, I did find a free ZIP component if anyone is interested, it's called
MoleZip and you can get it at http://www.molestudio.com/tools/molezip/
It doesn't have all the options like the payware COMs or the WinZip add-ons
(I.E. - I can't MOVE files to the zip, only copy them to it. I also can't
tell it to zip C:\FOLDERNAME you have to list each file), but it works fine
and I'm happy to have found it!


"T.Taylor" <taylort2@juno.com> wrote in message
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> I do not know where to find a free zip component but I have some
> alternatives.
>
> Is the copy of Winzip you are using a fullly registered version? If
> not, then it will get stuck waiting for the user to press <Enter> on
> the command-line side. I believe pkware's command-line program will
> work even when not registered. Also, If you can find PowerArchiver
> 2000 (when it was still freeware) you can use that.
>
> If you are going to be running on a business server you should just buy
> the program (Winzip, PowerArchiver, PKWare, etc.)
>
> Jeremy D. Pavleck (dot dot) wrote:
> > Does anyone know where I can find a free component to ZIP files up? I
> was
> > trying to just use exec (To capture the output) with Winzip's
> command-line
> > add on but alas, when I put it in a sub it just doesn't seem to want
> to
> > work. I'd prefer a COM anyway - so any ideas?
>