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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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Unicode C
#include <C_CkGzipW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkGzipW gzip;

    success = FALSE;

    gzip = CkGzipW_Create();

    success = CkGzipW_UncompressFile(gzip,L"qa_data/tar/test.tgz",L"qa_output/test.tar");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkGzipW_lastErrorText(gzip));
    }
    else {
        wprintf(L"success.\n");
    }



    CkGzipW_Dispose(gzip);

    }