This is meant as a serious suggestion. There is a command line interface to WinZip and I call it using ShellExecute from my Delphi program to create zip files. I am sure that one can unzip zip files as well.
But I would be interested to know of any other solutions. What is the objection to using components?
I do not like installing random components unless I absolutely have to, and only on large projects. The project I am working on is small and the feature is not absolutely necessary.
I've manipulated zip archives with PHP, and which only required me to include a small 18 kb file to my project, I was wondering if there are any similiar solutions.
I am currently using PKZip in a similiar fashion, but I like your suggestion because all my users would have winzip and I wouldn't have to distribute the PKZip executable.
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