How can I zip more than 1 file in a GZipStream? I have 3 xml files and I want to zip them into one .gz file and when I decompress I should get all 3 separate files.
How can I do this?
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A:
gzip is only designed to hold a single file. You will need to collate them in some other container before gzipping them.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-06-15 03:08:06
i did'nt get collate them in some other container... please throw some more light on this Abram
Sathish
2010-06-15 03:17:19
He's saying the same thing as Matthew - you'll need to combine the three files into one file *before* you compress.
Charlie Salts
2010-06-15 03:23:37
how do i do that??
Sathish
2010-06-15 03:33:34
First you pick a container, like, say, JSON. Then you create a JSON string containing the three files. And then you compress the JSON string.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-06-15 03:36:37
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A:
You can tar them together first. SharpZipLib has support for tar, as well as its own GZip implementation. See the SharpZipLib.Tar namespace. The docs are here.
Matthew Flaschen
2010-06-15 03:09:28
is it a microsoft library or 3rd party?? coz my client does not accept third parties...
Sathish
2010-06-15 03:13:17
It's third-party class. That seems like a rather arbitrary requirement.
Matthew Flaschen
2010-06-15 03:15:59
You can see [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/940582/how-do-i-zip-a-file-in-c-using-no-3rd-party-apis). But note that ZipPackage isn't a general-purpose Zip class.
Matthew Flaschen
2010-06-15 03:20:51