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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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Unicode C
#include <C_CkGzipW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkGzipW gzip;
    BOOL bNoAbsolute;
    const wchar_t *untarToDirectory;

    success = FALSE;

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

    gzip = CkGzipW_Create();

    // Ungzip and untar.
    bNoAbsolute = TRUE;

    untarToDirectory = L"/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 = CkGzipW_UnTarGz(gzip,L"test.tar.gz",untarToDirectory,bNoAbsolute);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkGzipW_lastErrorText(gzip));
        CkGzipW_Dispose(gzip);
        return;
    }



    CkGzipW_Dispose(gzip);

    }