[AccessD] Zip and send to web server

Hi Reuben

Great!
Freebyte Zip is one exe at <300K.
If you by "install" mean registering a dll, that is not needed - it
just needs to be copied to some place where your app can find it. 
But wouldn't that be same for John's dll? It is not always needed to
copy them to the system folder and do a registration.

I have no module for FBZip - guess you hardly need it, the command line
is pretty simple as you would expect.
One limition I've found is that it doesn't respect relative paths like


  ..\parentdir\filetozip.mdb

you have to specify full paths like 

  d:\somedir\parentdir\filetozip.mdb

/gustav

>>> reuben at gfconsultants.com 19-01-2005 23:13:15 >>>
Gustav, I downloaded and installed that FTP software and your modules. 
They
work perfectly.

I have created a zip process using a class from John Colby, but it
requires
I install a dll on every users computer.

Does the zip package you mention make installation (for me)simpler? 
And do
you have a module to run it from within Access?

I already have around 140 installs state wide and need to minimize the
amount of work needed to add this Zip and FTP feature.  I notice that
the
docs say that it does not need to be installed.

I only ask because I would like to have all the info before digging too
far.

Thanks.

Reuben Cummings
GFC, LLC
phone: 812.523.1017
email: reuben at gfconsultants.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:36 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Zip and send to web server


Hi Reuben
Not very fancy, but for similar non high-profiled tasks we use Windows
Command Line FTP which adds the bonus of displaying a status window
where the user can monitor the progress of the transfer which
otherwise
seems to "take forever":

  http://www.pacific.net/~ken/software/ 

Note the copy-n-paste module for Access to drive this.

We also use Freebyte Zip for the same reasons - a progress window for
the user to monitor:

  http://www.freebyte.com/fbzip 

/gustav