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[sachsm]

I was wondering if it is possible to open up a ZIP archive and read the contents (text file in my case) without creating a temp copy on the file system.

Thanks

[Mr Mike]

According to this thread, OpenG has zip reading and writing functions. You can find them here.

[rolfk]

According to this thread, OpenG has zip reading and writing functions. You can find them here.

And the OpenG ZLIB library supports extracting files directly into memory strings rather than to a disk file!

[sachsm]

Yes, I have the OpenG ZLIB vi's and have a put together a way to extract a single file to disk and then read it.
It appears that there are vi's that look like they can setup a zlib file pointer but I cannot see how to read out the
data from the internal pointer. Any hints?

Ok, I must have an old version, I just looked at 2.5.1 and I do see the streaming vi's.

Thanks!