NTDOC,

I think I've found the problem. Its not the way that the variables are passed to shell. Its wzzip, I just did a cmd line test of it and it failed showing that you can not have -v combined with other options.

wzzip -a -ex -rp "c:\files\thisdir.zip" "c:\files\exdir -v exdir\*.*"

Well now I have to find another way around. Maybe a rename script.

Thanks for your help

Phoe