Help with backup\restore newbie

[GOOGE]

hi
i have just about to finish an archiving program but i have one task left and i am stuck as to how to do it.in this program lets just say i want to catalogue all my pc games , for each game i save a textfile and a jpg image.what i want to do is have an option to back up and restore these files but i want to be able to somehow save them as one big file, is this possible ,maybe a zip file would be good but i want it to be a stand alone and not realy on external programs such as winzip etc.is it possible to zip and unzip in vb? any suggestion to get me on te right track would be much appreiciated.

where do i start?

james cuttance

 

[Beesknees]

i wouldn't know about using something like winzip for compressing the file but you could dump it all into a text file in binary format using vb's put function. just a suggestion.