----- Original Message ----- 
From: "scoubes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'MapInfo-L (E-mail) ' (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 11:08 AM
Subject: MI-L find software directory


> Hi all,
> 
> I need, in my mapbasic program, find the path of a particular software
> (winzip32.exe), and put it in a string variable (var =
> "c:\........\winzip32.exe").
> What is the function (dll?) that can do that?

Do you really need to know the actual path to an actual winzip32.EXE?
Or do you simply want to open ZIP files?

Rather than insist on using WinZip and only WinZip, you may want to
call the Windows Shell API function ShellExecute() instead.

HTH
Spencer



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