Help listing files in a Compressed Folder...

[HpO]

Would appreciate any help anyone can provide with:

- listing the contents of a Compressed Folder (.zip file)
- extracting one or more files from a Compressed Folder

Can this be accomplished with the FileSystemObject?

Thanks in advance.

bt

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

HpO wrote:

> Would appreciate any help anyone can provide with:
>
> - listing the contents of a Compressed Folder (.zip file)
> - extracting one or more files from a Compressed Folder
>
> Can this be accomplished with the FileSystemObject?

Hi

You can't use the FileSystemObject for this I'm afraid.

You can use the Run method and shell out and call a command line based zip
program, or you can use an ActiveX component to do this from a script.

ZipGenius has a command line interface (freeware)
http://www.zipgenius.it/

WinZip Command Line Support Add-On
http://www.winzip.com/wzcline.htm

PowerArchiver has a command line version as well:
http://www.powerarchiver.com

and from a couple of previous posts:

From: Ross Presser (rpre...@NOSPAM.imtek.com.invalid)
Subject: Re: Programatically controlling file compression/zip
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh
Date: 2003-06-25 13:20:53 PST

<quote>
Forget the dlls. Get zip.exe and unzip.exe from INFO-ZIP - command line
tools that do things like

zip foo.zip c:/path/files/*

unzip -d c:/path/files/ foo.zip

<http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html#Win32>
</quote>

From: Atrax _ (anon...@devdex.com)
Subject: Re: zipping a file via vb and wsh
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh
Date: 2002-12-10 19:36:08 PST

<quote>
There's a lightweight ZIP component I wrote at :

http://rtfm.atrax.co.uk/boards/asp.asp?action=viewPost&postID=295

I still; haven't got around to documenting it fully, though, and I
haven't released the 'full' version yet.
</quote>

Here is a couple of not free COM components:

Polar ZIP
http://www.polarsoftware.com/products/zip/index.html

DynaZIP:
http://www.innermedia.com/Products/Zip-compression/zip-compression.htm

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torgeir
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