[AccessD] Zip and send to web server

John W. Colby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Jan 20 10:19:28 CST 2005


Yep, just copy the dll to the windows / system dir and it is just found.

John W. Colby
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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 4:20 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [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

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