Microsoft KB Archive/140874

= You May Distribute Compress.exe from VB Setup Kit with VB App =

PSS ID Number: 140874

Article Last Modified on 1/8/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition, 16-bit, for Windows 4.0
 * Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition, 16-bit, for Windows 4.0

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This article was previously published under Q140874



SUMMARY
Compress.exe is a utility program used by the Visual Basic SetupWizard to compress your files before you place them on distribution disks. Once the SetupWizard has built your distribution disks, Compress.Exe is not used anymore. Compress.exe is not necessary for installing your application by means of the distribution disks.

However, if you want to have your application use the Compress.exe utility for its own purposes, you can distribute Compress.exe with your application. This may be useful if, for example, you want to have your application program archive (compress) data files that are not in use.



MORE INFORMATION
You can expand files compressed with Compress.exe by using several methods, including the following:


 * The Expand.exe utility, also provided with the Visual Basic Setup Kit. (This utility is also redistributable.)
 * Lzexpand.dll API calls, which are documented in the Windows SDK Help file. Lzexpand.dll is provided with Windows version 3.1.

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