Extracting gz compressed file.

[jassing]

Couldn't search the forum -- 'gz' is too small.
Using google, I either ended up on either a unix, PureZIP, or ZLib/purebasic page(zlib's example didn't work.)

I have to download a file on a regular basis and then extract/process the file but it is a .gz compressed file.

Other than shelling out to a gunzip util/port -- any ideas?

Thanks
-josh

[IdeasVacuum]

If it is always the same file, you can just hard-code the gzip command. Otherwise, since the gzip file name is the same as the original file, your app can extract the file name from the .gz file and then concat the command.

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RunProgram("C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\gzip","-d C:\MyGzipFiles\SampleFile.txt.gz","",#PB_Program_Wait)

MessageRequester("Done", "Done")

End

Tested on WinXP 32bit. You can of course use other decompression apps such as WinRar in the same way.

[gnozal]

Hi,

you may try the following include + static ZLIB : http://gnozal.ucoz.com/PBLIB_ZLIB_Stati ... c_GZip.zip

[jassing]

Thanks! I'll check the dll.

-j