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

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

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Gzip
integer li_BNoAbsolute
string ls_UntarToDirectory
integer li_Success

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

loo_Gzip = create oleobject
// Use "Chilkat_9_5_0.Gzip" for versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0
li_rc = loo_Gzip.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Gzip")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Gzip
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

// Ungzip and untar.
li_BNoAbsolute = 1

ls_UntarToDirectory = "/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"
li_Success = loo_Gzip.UnTarGz("test.tar.gz",ls_UntarToDirectory,li_BNoAbsolute)
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_Gzip.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Gzip
    return
end if



destroy loo_Gzip