Actually, my program is a .NET 2.0 program, and it has a class in its
API for doing GZIP included in it. So, I could use that.

But I think what I will do is just do the backup to the hard drive, see
whether it fits on the diskette, and if it does, copy it there. If it
doesn't, I'll just inform the user to do the backup to some other
medium. Saves all the complication of doing the extra Zip step, and
unzipping on restores.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Woody" <woody-tmw@...> wrote:

> No need, there are plenty of free third party components you can
include in
> a project exe for zipping/unzipping.
>
> Woody (TMW)
>