Jeff's approach appears to be the orthogonal, correct and desired
answer. I'd like some additional information.
     This is probably naive, but is there some reason not to just spawn a
copy of 2.04G (or 2.50 if you want looooong file names)? It has a certain
simplicity which appeals to me. I can read the string which I'm about to
send to the command line thus making debugging easy.
      I've got to stop thinking this way if I'm ever going to be mainstream!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Campbell [SMTP:jcampbell_at_ins-msi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:32 AM
> To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> Subject: [sftalk] Re: File Compression
>
>
> Take a look at
>
> http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/ZipCompL/
>
> This is an ActiveX control intended for the VB developer. But, it comes
> with a .DLL API interface allowing direct access to the internal
> routines
> and data.
>
> I have not tried using it with SwiftForth, but I am using it with
> Fujitsu COBOL. Works great!
>
> Jeff Campbell
> n8wxs_at_arrl.net
>
> Bob Nash wrote:
> >
> > I need to automatically and periodically compress some plain text log
> files
> > from a turnkeyed Windows program. I have many Forth examples of how to
> > compress text files using various algorithms. However, I would like to
> know
> > if there are any DLLs that can be used to implement LZW type compression
> (a
> > la PKZIP). I haven't tried an internet search yet, but I was hoping
> that
> > someone had already solved this problem and could provide a simple
> example
> > or web site reference.
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