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UnGzip .tgz to get a .tar

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A .tgz is simply a TAR archive compressed using GZip. It is also commonly referred to as a .tar.gz. Chilkat GZip can be used to ungzip to get an uncompressed .tar.

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C++
#include <CkGzip.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkGzip gzip;

    success = gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/tar/test.tgz","qa_output/test.tar");
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << gzip.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
    }
    else {
        std::cout << "success." << "\r\n";
    }
    }