Does anyone know of way to compress files in a folder
using vbs commands or whs? Any suggestions would be useful.

Chris White wrote in news:080301c386ab$ebd39ef0$(E-Mail Removed):

> Does anyone know of way to compress files in a folder
> using vbs commands or whs? Any suggestions would be useful.
>

No, but what do you mean "compress"?. As in ZIP or other archiver or
as in NTFS filesystem compression. (eg compact /?)

"Chris White" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb
> What I need to do is take the 24 files from each day and
> compress them into one file. Almost like zipping them
> making them one big file. I was trying to think if you
> could use the windows zipping mechanism, but don't know
> the shell or dos command to do that. Hopefully this
> better explain things.

It's still not clear what your aim is:

- concatening "the?" 24 files into one (can be done with copy)

- archiving with a packer like pkzip/winzip/rar/arj/7zip etc.

- using the NT/W2k/XP builtin feature of compressing files & folders
for ntfs partions.

The op gave you a hint with "compact /?" meaning you should execute
this at a cmd-prompt. This is also valid for "copy /?" or "pkzip /?"

All of this could be used in a batchfile to automate this.

vbscript and wsh are a bit off topic in this ng, look for another
newsgroup to ask for.

hth
Matthias

Chris White wrote:

> Does anyone know of way to compress files in a folder
> using vbs commands or whs? Any suggestions would be useful.

Hi

ZIP file (command line or component):
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...1A%40hydro.com


CAB file (command line or component):
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...69%40hydro.com


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