[Mono-list] how to compress a directory?

[Abe Gillespie]

According to this it's fully implemented:

http://mono.ximian.com/class-status/2.0/System.html

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Abe Gillespie <abe.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
> This has been built into the framework since .Net 2.0.  I would assume
> Mono supports it as well:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.gzipstream.aspx
>
> -Abe
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Juan C. Olivares <juancri at juancri.com> wrote:
>> Rolando:
>>
>> I think the "clean" way is to use SharpZipLib, which is a managed library
>> for ZIP:
>>
>> http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Juan C. Olivares
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Rolando Martinez
>> <rolandomartinezg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a web app and I would like what is the correct way to compress a
>>> directoy inside my application?
>>> Currently I have the next code, but I have the problem that when the user
>>> download the file, he can see the complete path inside of tar.gz file
>>> (var/www/webapp/app_data/directory)...I would like to have just the folder
>>> inside of tar.gz :)
>>>
>>>
>>>        public static bool Compress(string localeFolder, string
>>> nameOfGzipFile)
>>>         {
>>>             System.Diagnostics.Process process = new
>>> System.Diagnostics.Process ();
>>>             process.StartInfo.FileName = "tar";
>>>             process.StartInfo.Arguments = " -czvf " + nameOfGzipFile +" "
>>> + localeFolder;
>>>             process.Start ();
>>>             process.WaitForExit ();
>>>
>>>             return (process.ExitCode == 0);
>>>
>>>         }
>>>
>>> Thank you !!!
>>> Rolando.
>>>
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