WinZip Question

[LarryP]

I'm actually on Windows XP, but couldn't find a group for that (every other
flavor of Windows, but not that!), and my question is actually about WinZip,
but hey, that's sort of a Windows add-in, right?

Anybody know how to run a self-extracting zip file (.exe extension) and
BYPASS the dialog box where you must click Unzip and later Close? When I
call it from MSAccess VBA code I just want it to go ahead and perform the
unzip without bugging the user for any input. I have the unzip destination
already hardwired, so would rather not have the user involved at all.

 

[KDE]

right click on the zip file, you should be presented with several options.
Extract. (which will start the unzip wizard)
Extract to... (where you will have to designate a location) or Extract to
"name of zip" (where the zip will be extracted to a new folder created in
the location the zip file is in)

 

[LVTravel]

I'm actually on Windows XP, but couldn't find a group for that (every
other
flavor of Windows, but not that!), and my question is actually about
WinZip,
but hey, that's sort of a Windows add-in, right?

Anybody know how to run a self-extracting zip file (.exe extension) and
BYPASS the dialog box where you must click Unzip and later Close? When I
call it from MSAccess VBA code I just want it to go ahead and perform the
unzip without bugging the user for any input. I have the unzip
destination
already hardwired, so would rather not have the user involved at all.

You can't do that with the personal edition Self Extractor that comes with
WinZip.

See http://www.winzip.com/prodpagese.htm for information on their Self
Extractor 3.1 program that appears to do exactly what you want. $49.95

 

[Andrew Murray]

You mean you couldn't find microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, or
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics?

It's on msnews.microsoft.com - subscribe through Windows Mail, not the
clunking web interface.

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

I'm actually on Windows XP, but couldn't find a group for that (every other
flavor of Windows, but not that!), and my question is actually about WinZip,
but hey, that's sort of a Windows add-in, right?

Anybody know how to run a self-extracting zip file (.exe extension) and
BYPASS the dialog box where you must click Unzip and later Close? When I
call it from MSAccess VBA code I just want it to go ahead and perform the
unzip without bugging the user for any input. I have the unzip destination
already hardwired, so would rather not have the user involved at all.

No, you can't do that with VBA code like you can't do it with VB6 or
VB.Net code. Winzip is not a MS Windows add-in. It is a 3rd party tool
that must be installed on the Windows platform like other 3rd party's
software applications.

You call that Winzip.exe from code, tt's like you're setting there at
the Command Prompt staring Winzip and the user must interact with the
Winzip screens.

There are free 3rd party compress/decompress libraries in a DLL format
that your VBA solution can call that compresses or decompress zip files
without user intervention, like Zlib and others.

http://www.zlib.net/

 

[the wharf rat]

No, you can't do that with VBA code like you can't do it with VB6 or
VB.Net code. Winzip is not a MS Windows add-in. It is a 3rd party tool
that must be installed on the Windows platform like other 3rd party's
software applications.

Use the Winzip command line add-on:

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

 

[LarryP]

Thanks, wr. Our enterprise is still plugging along with 10.0 at the moment,
but I imagine 12.0 will come along in due course, so I'll download that
add-on for later use.

 

[LarryP]

I found lots of XP groups for discussions, but when I went to the
post-a-question screen I didn't find anything XP in the dropdown.

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

Use the Winzip command line add-on:

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

I wouldn't be using it in a serious application like a Windows NT
service or Console application that was a Web service client solution
that was compressing XML files to be transmitted to a Web service. I
wouldn't want to have anything to do with some kind of a Command line
arguments.

You set reference to a zip library in the project, you instantiate the
zlib object to do the compress or decompress and error trap in code if
something goes wrong.

Same thing being done on the Web service side project with the
decompression as it has a reference set to the compression library.

No Mickey Mouse Winzip anything. I wouldn't use it programming wise
under any circumstances.

Nothing against you personally or Winzip, because I use it at the
desktop for my personal usage, but no professional programmer that I
know of would use Winzip in code.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I found lots of XP groups for discussions, but when I went to the
post-a-question screen I didn't find anything XP in the dropdown.

You are using the web interface to participate in newsgroups.

The reason you're having such problems is that you are using the awful
web interface to read this newsgroup--it's the slowest, clunkiest,
most error-prone method there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a
newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows XP. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

 

[Mike]

Is this a Vista newsgroup or what?