Thread: c zip files

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    Exclamation c zip files

    does anyone know how to zip up a folder using c? or zipping multiple files then remove them?

    ps, not the popen(zip bla) way

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    There are several zip archive libraries available...

    zlib Home Site

    Many more with Google's help...

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    that zlib looks usefull i had a look at the examples but could not manage to work out how to zip up a specified folder, can you help me out?

    --update

    i did a little searching apparently zlip can only zip single files and the output is a .gz i need to make a .zip archive

    if anyone knows a library and the code to zip up a dir i would appreciate it very much

    thanks everyone
    Last edited by hawlpm3; 03-26-2011 at 10:41 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hawlpm3 View Post
    that zlib looks usefull i had a look at the examples but could not manage to work out how to zip up a specified folder, can you help me out?

    --update

    i did a little searching apparently zlip can only zip single files and the output is a .gz i need to make a .zip archive

    if anyone knows a library and the code to zip up a dir i would appreciate it very much

    thanks everyone


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