>> 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. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor