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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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C++
#include <CkGzip.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.

    CkGzip gzip;

    success = gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz","qa_output/something.csv");
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << gzip.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format." << "\r\n";
    }