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Ok. I know how to open things like notepad VIA /run notepad.exe file.blah. Does anyone know how if possible to run winrar and have it zip a file. I want to zip a folder so a few gamebots can communicate and back up data.. It would ba a lot easier if I could just zip folders and dcc them every so often ;] Any help.. I'll love ya forever.. thx..

Try this dll, http://mircscripts.org/download.php?id=2220
you can unzip and zip files with it

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Edit: dont know if it works with winrar...

you do know theres a dos application for (un)zipping files?

You can but it has little to do with mirc. You need to read in winrar's help file about the various command-line switches it supports. The only advice I can give you mirc-wise is to do it like this in mirc:
/run "c:\program files\winrar\winrar.exe" <switches here>
ie enclose the path in quotes, if it contains spaces, and have the switches outside the quotes.

Thanks all.. gives me some direction. I'll post what I come up with in case others have some use for doing this in the future..

Wow. It was a lot easier than I thought:

/run winrar.exe am -o+ ARCHIVEname folder1\*.txt folder2\*.txt

many options.. but that does my needs.. thx again

Yeah, it is very easy to do. I use that to backup our trivia scores and send them to the other ops to make sure we don't lose them if something happens on my end.