"MARTIN LANNY" wrote:
> Upon a call from my windows based vb.net program, Php script on a
> remote server grabs data from MySQL database and exports it into string
> and saves to a txt file I download and parse in my VB.NET application.
> Sometimes there is lot of data to download and it takes a while.
> What I need is for php to zip the data and save it compressed. And then
> download the zipped data to my vb.net program and unzip it before I
> parse it.
> Is there some free compression which would produce the same results in
> php and vb.net?
> Something like free zip or rar component for both languages?
> Thanks for your help. This would speed up our application tremendously.
> Martin