Bill Martin said:
XP-Home has a built in Zip facility to compress files. Is
there some way
to access that from a command line? The Help files only seem
to talk about
using it through the GUI interface. Sometimes the old command
line is
better if you're trying to automate something.
Thanks.
Bill
Try running Help and Support searches for
compacting
compress
Someplace in there you'll find a comparison between the two, plus
a pretty good description of how XP handles the zip compression
(or not).
To compress a file is in XP very easy: Just right click,
Properties and select the Advanced Properties button. You can
even designate a folder (or entire drive) to automatically
compress or zip everything/anything that goes on it.
The great thing about the XP 'zip' is that you never had to
unzip them; it's done behind the scenes; you use the files just
as though they weren't zipped. You pay a slight cost in
overhead, but it's very slight.
The cons of using a ZIP utility are that you cannot really use
those zipped files as though they weren't zipped like XP allows.
The upside is a LOT more control over the zipping functions.
Winzip.com has version ten out now, and it runs either from the
command line or windows GUI. There is also a specific add-on
just for command line operations. Very comprehensive. Oh, and
they're both freebies.
HTH
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