APIs to work with zip archives
APIs to work with zip archives
- Subject: APIs to work with zip archives
- From: Timothy Mowlem <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:25:10 +0100
Hello,
I am interested in writing an application which uses zip archives. I
would like to be able to create archives, expand archives and list an
archives contents. I have read through the Cocoa APIs but did not
find any Cocoa APIs to do this.
Of course there are the gzip/gunzip and tar command line utilities
but they are somewhat limited, rely on the filesystem being 'correct'
and require one to start a separate process.
The finder can create and expand archives. I watched all of the
running processes in top while I started an archiving job in the
Finder. Its CPU usage rapidly increased to a high level and no other
processes appeared to start so I assume that it is using an API
rather than starting a helper process.
So does anyone know if there are any Apple APIs for handling zip
archives?
Are they public as opposed to internal to Apple?
Whereabouts are they (Cocoa, Carbon, etc)?
Thanks,
Tim Mowlem
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