Re: [Boost-users] Using iostream to create ZIP archive

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Using iostream to create ZIP archive
From: eg (egoots_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-14 13:55:09

Peter Json wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use boost to create a "zip" file containing more than one
> file.
> 
> To my understanding I should use boost::iosteams to do this.
> 
> In the boost documentation I there is only an example on how to unzip a file
> .....
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/zlib.html#examples
> 
> ... but I dont understand how I could do the opposite (create a zip-archive)
> Especially how to do the naming of the files inside the archive.
> 
> Does anyone have an example on howto do create a zip-archive containing a
> couple of text files?
> 

There is a distinction between zlib and zip files.

this was asked and answered before.

For details see:

http://www.nabble.com/iostreams-%2B-unzip-td12725850.html#a12725850