Can a folder which has lots of sub dirs can be zipped up? I hope that I can do that and e-mail it.?

Answer 1

Yes, here are some details.

File Decompressors /Compressors

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files. WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, long filename support, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), damaged archive repair, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. Unicode is supported in archive filenames, allowing non-English filenames to be handled painlessly.
You can manipulate the parameters of many archives at once and view a volume sequence as a single archive. WinRAR is able to convert other archive formats to RAR. It supports the Find command, allowing search for specified text and files in archives. The latest WinRAR version can rename files inside of RAR archives and preserves file time using the high precision NTFS time format.
http://www.rarlabs.com/download.htm

7 Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.
7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL.
The main features of 7-Zip:
High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
Self-extracting capability for 7z format
Integration with Windows Shell
Powerful File Manager
Powerful command line version
Plugin for FAR Manager
Localizations for 63 languages

Answer 2

Sheez, Mordak... too much information!

Yes, you can zip a folder with multiple sub-folders. However, when you unzip it, you might consider doing so from the root directory of the target drive. If the total number of characters in all folders/subfolders exceeds Window's limits, it won't let you extract.

Answer 3

yep ..