Bzip2Archive.Open

Bzip2Archive.Open method

Opens the archive for extraction and provides a stream with archive content.

public Stream Open()

Return Value

The stream that represents the contents of the archive.

Remarks

Read from the stream to get original content of file. See examples section.

Examples

Usage:

Stream decompressed = archive.Open();

.NET 4.0 and higher - use Stream.CopyTo method:

decompressed.CopyTo(httpResponse.OutputStream)

.NET 3.5 and before - copy bytes manually:

byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
int bytesRead;
while (0 < (bytesRead = decompressed.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)))
 fileStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

See Also

Bzip2Archive.ExtractToDirectory Bzip2Archive.Save