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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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
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i did'nt get collate them in some other container... please throw some more light on this Abram – Sathish Jun 15 '10 at 03:17
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He's saying the same thing as Matthew - you'll need to combine the three files into one file *before* you compress. – Charlie Salts Jun 15 '10 at 03:23
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1First 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 Jun 15 '10 at 03:36
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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.
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is it a microsoft library or 3rd party?? coz my client does not accept third parties... – Sathish Jun 15 '10 at 03:13
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It's third-party class. That seems like a rather arbitrary requirement. – Matthew Flaschen Jun 15 '10 at 03:15
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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 Jun 15 '10 at 03:20