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

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

Download Chilkat 32-bit Zip ActiveX (.msi) (includes objects for .zip, .gz, .bz2, and .Z)

Download All 32-bit Chilkat ActiveX Components (.zip)

Download All 64-bit Chilkat ActiveX Components (.zip)

LOCAL loGzip
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnBNoAbsolute
LOCAL lcUntarToDirectory


loGzip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Gzip')

*  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
lnSuccess = loGzip.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loGzip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Ungzip and untar.

lnBNoAbsolute = 1

lcUntarToDirectory = "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"
lnSuccess = loGzip.UnTarGz("test.tar.gz",lcUntarToDirectory,lnBNoAbsolute)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loGzip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF