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Untar a .tar.bz2 Compressed Archive

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Untar a .tar.bz2 compressed archive.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<%
success = 0

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

' Untar a .tar archive.
set tar = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Tar")

' Untar into c:/temp/untarDir.  The directory tree(s) contained
' within the TAR archive will be re-created rooted at this
' directory.
tar.UntarFromDir = "/Users/chilkat/temp/untarDir"

' If any filepaths within the Tar archive are absolute,
' automatically make them relative by removing the first
' forward or backward slash.  This protects from untarring
' files to unexpected locations.
tar.NoAbsolutePaths = 1

success = tar.UntarBz2("/Users/chilkat/testData/tar/abc123.tar.bz2")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( tar.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Else
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success") & "</pre>"
End If


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