It is also a good idea to check http://www.info-zip.org/

Very good and easy-to-use command line tools.



Jordi.



________________________________

From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mt_headed99
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:27 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Automating backup to diskettes - disk
full problems



--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com> , "Dan Cooperstock"
<dcoops@...> wrote:

> I also can't insist on other shareware such as WinZip being present.

WinZip, no - but 7-zip is free, open-source, and (IMHO) a better
program than WinZip anyway. I think you would be within your rights
to insist that 7-zip be installed; in addition, there's a
well-documented API for it.

Just my $.02...





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]