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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Dim gzip As New Chilkat.Gzip()

Dim success As Boolean

'  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
success = gzip.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox(gzip.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Ungzip and untar.
Dim bNoAbsolute As Boolean
bNoAbsolute = true
Dim untarToDirectory As String
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 = gzip.UnTarGz("test.tar.gz",untarToDirectory,bNoAbsolute)
If (success <> true) Then
    MsgBox(gzip.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If