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Owning Palette: File I/O VIs and Functions

Use the Zip VIs to create new zip files, to add files to zip files, to unzip zip files, and to close zip files.

Example

Palette Object	Description
Add File to Zip	Adds the file source file path specifies to a zip file. The destination path in zip control specifies the zipped path information.
Close Zip File	Closes the zip file zip file in specifies.
New Zip File	Creates a new empty zip file in the path that target specifies. The new file overwrites an existing file or produces a confirmation dialog based on the value of the confirm overwrite? control.
Unzip	Unzips the contents of Zip file to the Target directory. Set Preview only? to TRUE to preview the list of files in Zip file before you unzip the zip file. This VI cannot unzip a zip file that is password protected.

Example

Refer to the Zip Tool VI in the labview\examples\file\Zip Tool.llb for an example of using the Zip VIs.