Hi Everone, I had a zip file on a CD locked with a password (i know the password). I wanted to create a batch file that will verify password and extract the zip file onto c:\ drive. Since the CD is going to be distributed amongst windows 2000, xp users, i am not sure if for e.g. all will have pkunzip, etc. Just wondering anyone out there can help. Much Appreciated, KK

Hi KK, If the user does not have PZUNZIP, he'll be hard pressed to run it. Sounds like you'll need to include it on the CD. So if the CD drive is R: r:\pkUNzip -d r:\test c:\ -sabc where test is the ZIP and abc is the password. HTH

You need to remake the zip into a self extacting zip file. Seems like xp pro should support many .zip formats.

Thanks a lot for your responses. HTH, i tried putting in the statement onto my code replacing the letters with drive name, etc but in command prompt it gave me the error saying that c:\pkunzip is not recognised as an internal or external comand, operable program or batch file. i tried searching for pkunzip on my computer but did not find anything. would that explain things?? one of the older forums said that windows xp dos editor is not a real dos editor??!! so maybe pkunzip is not supported. to be honest i am pretty new to using batch files so might be doing something really stupid.

forgot to add, jefro, how do i remake the zip file onto a self extracting file. do i need to get a specific software for it or the batch code would automatically do it for me??