>> I've had little experience with dos.  I believe I should use the
>> COMPACT, and then the MOVE dos command... Would
>> it go something like this?
>
> You could use these but you'd be better just using Python
> to do it via the shutil and os modules and avoid the DOS
> commands completely IMHO.

Python has the zipfile module which is very handy to use, which wasn't 
mentioned but provides the zip functionality that the OP was looking for. 

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