Untar a .tar.Z (.taz) Compressed Archive

Untar a .tar.Z (.taz) compressed archive.

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'  Important: It is helpful to send the contents of the
'  tar.LastErrorText property when requesting support.

'  Untar a .tar archive.
set tar = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Tar")

'  Any string automatically begins the 30-day trial.
success = tar.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( tar.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Untar into c:/temp/untarDir.  The directory tree(s) contained
'  within the TAR archive will be re-created rooted at this
'  directory.
tar.UntarFromDir = "/Users/chilkat/temp/untarDir"

'  If any filepaths within the Tar archive are absolute,
'  automatically make them relative by removing the first
'  forward or backward slash.  This protects from untarring
'  files to unexpected locations.
tar.NoAbsolutePaths = 1

success = tar.UntarZ("/Users/chilkat/testData/tar/abc123.tar.Z")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( tar.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Else
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success") & "</pre>"
End If

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