Untar a .tar.bz2 Compressed Archive

Untar a .tar.bz2 compressed archive.

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LOCAL loTar
LOCAL lnSuccess

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

*  Untar a .tar archive.
loTar = CreateObject('Chilkat.Tar')

*  Any string automatically begins the 30-day trial.

lnSuccess = loTar.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loTar.LastErrorText
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Untar into c:/temp/untarDir.  The directory tree(s) contained
*  within the TAR archive will be re-created rooted at this
*  directory.
loTar.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.
loTar.NoAbsolutePaths = 1

lnSuccess = loTar.UntarBz2("/Users/chilkat/testData/tar/abc123.tar.bz2")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loTar.LastErrorText
ELSE
    ? "Success"
ENDIF