Using pkzip or winzip from the engine

[Manny Zachodin]

We are creating 270 files from SQL data. Before FTP’ing the file to eMedNY I need to Zip the output file. Is there a way to invoke WINZIP  or PKZIP from inside the engine as part of the translate process?  Thanks for your replies.

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[Chris Williams]

You might try doing a bit of tcl in the xlate using the tcl “system” command:

 system pkzipc -add zipFileName sourceFiles

Your mileage may vary depending on your version of PKZIP.

[David Barr]

You could also do this with a Java proc using the java.util.zip classes.

We do this for unzipping messages that we receive.  It also has the advantage that you don’t have to write out any temporary files to disk.

I’ve attached a copy of our code.

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