Untar a .tar.Z Archive

C# example code to untar a .tar.Z Unix (.Z) compressed TAR archive.

        // Unpack a .tar.Z file.
        private void button5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // The Chilkat.UnixCompress class is included with the "Chilkat Zip" license.
            Chilkat.UnixCompress z = new Chilkat.UnixCompress();
            z.UnlockComponent("anything for 30-day trial");

            // The bNoAbsolute flag protects from untarring filenames
            // with absolute paths.  For example, if the tar contains
            // the filename "/windows/xyz.txt" it will not be untarred
            // into c:/windows/xyz.txt, but it will instead be treated
            // as "windows/xyz.txt" and will untar relative to the untar root.
            bool bNoAbsolute = true;
            string untarRoot = "c:/temp/someProduct/";

            // The UnTarZ method is streaming. Files of any size
            // may be uncompressed and untarred.  No temporary files are produced.
            z.UnTarZ("someProduct.tar.Z", untarRoot, bNoAbsolute);

        }

Important: The download for this example does not contain the ChilkatDotNet.dll which
must be downloaded and installed separately at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/downloads.asp.
Once installed, add a reference to the DLL in the project by following the instructions at
http://www.example-code.com/csharp/step2.asp