unZIPing without using a 3rd party application

[Fherrera]

Hi,

I've used VBA for Excel in the past, and I'm going to be working on it in Word now. Current version here is 2003. Now I did a search and found all the "unzip" threads that dealt with using the winzip command line program.

In my scenario this is not as feasible, as everyone has word and windows xp, but not everyone has winzip installed (or for that matter the command line winzip add-on).

My question is, since windows xp natively allows a user to open and view zip files, if there is an API? (terminology?) call to use that feature?

I've tried searching on google but it keeps sending me to sites that are "unzip the file then install it" as opposed to something dealing with unzipping. hehe.

Anyhow, any ideas?

Thanks,

Frank

 

[TomCologne]

Maybe you'll get an idea here:

Compressed (zipped) Folders overview

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_expand.mspx

TomCologne

 

[GlennUK]

How is the zipped file being created? If it is withing your own organisation, you could tell the sender to convert it to a self-extracting exe file, and then anyone could unzip it.

Cheers, Glenn.

Did you hear about the literalist show-jumper? He broke his nose jumping against the clock.

 

[mikej336]

I did some searching and looks like

http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/

is pretty well supported.

Uncle Mike