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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. PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

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

$gzip = New-Object Chilkat.Gzip

$success = $gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz","qa_output/something.csv")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($gzip.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format.")