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GZip Tar Extract (.tgz or .tar.gz)

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Demonstrates how to extract the contents of a GZip compressed Tar archive (.tgz or .tar.gz). Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

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

loGzip = createobject("CkGzip")

// Ungzip and untar.
llBNoAbsolute = .T.

lcUntarToDirectory = "/temp/test"
// bNoAbsolute tells the component to convert all absolute paths
// found in the .tar to relative paths.   For example, if the .tar
// contains a file with an absolute path such as
// "/usr/bin/something.exe" it will
// be extracted to "/temp/test/usr/bin/something.exe"
llSuccess = loGzip.UnTarGz("test.tar.gz",lcUntarToDirectory,llBNoAbsolute)
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loGzip.LastErrorText
    release loGzip
    return
endif



release loGzip