Creating ZIP Files with V

V only supports ZIP file viewing. In particular, you cannot create (or modify) ZIP files.

However, you can easily add the ability to create ZIP files to V by using the User Commands and a third party ZIP utility, like ZIP.EXE from Info-Zip.

The Info-Zip utilities are free, and at time of writing could be downloaded from:

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

Download the latest "ready to run" binaries for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. The file will be named something like zip99xN.zip where "99" is the version number.

Once you have extracted ZIP.EXE from the downloaded ZIP file, you can create a User Command as follows:

• Select Organize from the User Commands menu.
• Press the Insert Command button
• Rename the command to something meaningful - like "Create ZIP File"
• Specify the full ZIP.EXE path in Command Path.
• Put "-j" in the Command Options (without the quotes). This forces ZIP not to store the directory details in the ZIP file.
• Enable "Prompt for extra options"

Simply select the files you want added to the ZIP file in the Directory View and then select "Create ZIP File" from the UserCommands menu.

You will then be prompted for extra options. You should enter the name of the ZIP file that you want created. The ZIP file will be created in the current directory being viewed. If you specify the name of an existing ZIP file, the selected files will be added to the ZIP file.