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

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

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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set gzip = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Gzip")

' Ungzip and untar.
bNoAbsolute = 1

untarToDirectory = "/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
' "/usr/bin/something.exe" it will
' be extracted to "/temp/test/usr/bin/something.exe"
success = gzip.UnTarGz("test.tar.gz",untarToDirectory,bNoAbsolute)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( gzip.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If


%>
</body>
</html>