Working with LZip Archives

Overview

Lzip archive is common in Linux. It uses LZMA algorithm. Aspose.ZIP for .NET API lets work with creating and managing Lzip archives in your applications without the need of any other 3rd party applications. Aspose.ZIP API provides  LzipArchive class to work with such archives. This class provides basic methods to perform operations on archives.

Compress A File

The following code example shows how to compress a file using LzipArchive instance.

    using (LzipArchive archive = new LzipArchive())
    {
        archive.SetSource("data.bin");
        archive.Save("data.bin.lz");
    }

Extract Lzip Archive

The following simple code example shows how to open a Lzip archive.

    using (FileStream sourceLzipFile = File.Open("data.bin.lz", FileMode.Open))
    {
        using (FileStream extractedFile = File.Open("data.bin", FileMode.Create))
        {
            using (LzipArchive archive = new LzipArchive(sourceLzipFile))
            {
                archive.Extract(extractedFile);
            }
        }
    }