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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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Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

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

    let gzip = CkoGzip()!

    // Ungzip and untar.
    var bNoAbsolute: Bool = true
    var untarToDirectory: String?
    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(gzPath: "test.tar.gz", destDir: untarToDirectory, bNoAbsolute: bNoAbsolute)
    if success != true {
        print("\(gzip.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }


}