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GZip Decompress File

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Demonstrates how to uncompress a .gz compressed file to get the uncompressed original file.

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Unicode C++
#include <CkGzipW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkGzipW gzip;

    success = gzip.UncompressFile(L"qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz",L"qa_output/something.csv");
    if (success != true) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",gzip.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format.\n");
    }