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

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

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#include <C_CkGzip.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkGzip gzip;
    BOOL success;
    BOOL bNoAbsolute;
    const char * untarToDirectory;


    gzip = CkGzip_Create();

    //  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
    success = CkGzip_UnlockComponent(gzip,"Anything for 30-day trial");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkGzip_lastErrorText(gzip));
        return;
    }

    //  Ungzip and untar.

    bNoAbsolute = TRUE;

    untarToDirectory = "c:/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
    //  "c:/Windows/system32/something.exe" it will
    //  be extracted to "c:/temp/test/Windows/system32/something.exe"
    success = CkGzip_UnTarGz(gzip,"test.tar.gz",untarToDirectory,bNoAbsolute);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkGzip_lastErrorText(gzip));
        return;
    }



    CkGzip_Dispose(gzip);

    }