Winzip or Compressed folders from VB

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Several of our systems here receive data in small files every couple of
minutes. We act on each file and move it to a processed directory.
Before we act on a file again we ensure we haven't seen it before by
checking the processed directory. The risk of getting a file again
drops to almost none after a couple days. Still, it is mandated that we
save all these originally received files as proof of how we received
them indefinitely. Periodically (when someone notices how many tens of
thousands of files are in a processed directory) we use WinZip to zip up
all but the last week or so into zip files. I'd really like to to add
onto the end of the VB apps that process the file to automatically zip
any that are over 2 weeks old. WinZip or Compressed folders both seem
to work fine for me so I don't care which is used. I hate to think I'd
have to shell out to do this however. Can someone point me in the right
direction to get this done? Thanks.
 
Hi,

There is this: http://www.codeplex.com/DotNetZip that you might try. There
are commercial products (I've used a couple of ActiveX controls, but none of
the .NET commercial products).

Dick

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