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Old 12-12-2004, 10:10 AM   #1
MylesCLin
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Making C extract an archive


Hi, my app requires that I extract and ungzip a tar file.

I'm writing the app in C.
Can anyone help?
 
Old 12-12-2004, 10:50 AM   #2
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Look at http://www.gzip.org/zlib
 
Old 12-13-2004, 05:48 AM   #3
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what about a shell script wrapper function?
 
  


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