它是一個完全兼容COM/ActiveX的控件，您可以在任何的ActiveX / COM Windows開發工具下使用。它包括：Visual Basic, MS Access, MS Visual C++, ASP, Windows scripting等。

通過使用幾個簡單的方法，您就可以得到存檔內文件的信息，創建ZIP存檔，壓縮，提取或移除文件，自我提取存檔，跨多個磁盤讀取/寫入存檔，或 從內存中壓縮數據或壓縮數據到內存中。可選文件加密。

FathZIP是之前ActiveZip產品的升級版。它的特點有磁盤延伸，帶有WINDOWS GUI,COM界面的自解包程序組件，支持大于2Gb的壓縮包。

Visual Basic 例子:

'Create zip
FathZip1.CreateZip "c:\test.zip", ""
FathZip1.AddFile "c:\folder\*.dat", ""
FathZip1.AddFile "c:\config.sys", ""
FathZip1.Close

'Extract files
FathZip1.OpenZip "c:\test.zip"
FathZip1.ExtractFile "config.sys"
FathZip1.RemoveFile 1
FathZip1.Close

It is a fully compilant COM/ActiveX control you can use in any ActiveX / COM Windows development tools. It includes: Visual Basic, MS Access, MS Visual C++, ASP, Windows scripting, etc.

By using few simple methods you can get info about files in archive, create ZIP archives, compress, extract or remove files from them, make self-extracting archives, read/write archives that span multiple disks, or compress data from/to memory. Everything with optional file encryption.

FathZIP is improved version of our previous product, ActiveZip. It features disk spanning, self-extractor module with windows GUI, COM interface and bigger-then-2Gb archive support.

Visual Basic example:

'Create zip
FathZip1.CreateZip "c:\test.zip", ""
FathZip1.AddFile "c:\folder\*.dat", ""
FathZip1.AddFile "c:\config.sys", ""
FathZip1.Close

'Extract files
FathZip1.OpenZip "c:\test.zip"
FathZip1.ExtractFile "config.sys"
FathZip1.RemoveFile 1
FathZip1.Close