Zip Files ?!?

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Can anyone help?Here's my scenario.I need to create a macro/command that will run a zip command i.e. when I run the macro it should automatically add "c:\test1.txt", "c:\test2.txt" and "c:\test3.txt" to "c:\backup.zip"

Any idea?
 
xxx said:
Can anyone help?Here's my scenario.I need to create a macro/command that
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will run a zip command i.e. when I run the macro it should automatically add
"c:\test1.txt", "c:\test2.txt" and "c:\test3.txt" to "c:\backup.zip".
Any idea?
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You need a command line zip utility like pkzip or winzip's command line tool
for their latest version:

http://www.winzip.com/prodpagecl.htm

Then just shell out to the utility and feed it the paths of the files to be
zipped.
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xxx said:
Can anyone help?Here's my scenario.I need to create a macro/command that will run a zip command i.e. when I run the macro it should automatically add "c:\test1.txt", "c:\test2.txt" and "c:\test3.txt" to "c:\backup.zip".
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There are also some free utilities including one open source utility.
See the Compression DLLs, OCXs, etc page at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/compression.htm

Tony
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