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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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Visual FoxPro
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loGzip

lnSuccess = 0

loGzip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Gzip')

lnSuccess = loGzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/tar/test.tgz","qa_output/test.tar")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loGzip.LastErrorText
ELSE
    ? "success."
ENDIF

RELEASE loGzip