I use it a lot to uncompress external resources like this: fileRef := .... GZipReadStream unzip: fileRef basename to: FileSystem workingDirectory.
but it could be used to pass a directory as String I guess. Comment should be corrected. 2016-04-19 9:54 GMT-03:00 stepharo <[email protected]>: > unzip: fullFileName to: pathString > "Unzip the contents of the file specified by the full path name > fullFileName to the location given by pathString." > > so we would expect to pass a string in the second argument? > > the unique sender of it in the system > > unzip: fullFileName > "Unzip the contents of a gzipped file specified by its full file name > to the current working directory" > > ^ self unzip: fullFileName to: FileSystem disk workingDirectory > > > but the implementation seems to indicate that fullFileName is should be a > string as well as pathString > > unzip: fullFileName to: pathString > "Unzip the contents of the file specified by the full path name > fullFileName to the location given by pathString." > > | zipped buffer unzipped newName | > newName := fullFileName copyUpToLast: FileSystem disk > extensionDelimiter. > pathString asFileReference ensureCreateDirectory. > unzipped := FileStream newFileNamed: (pathString asFileReference / > newName) fullName. > unzipped ifNil: [self error: pathString, ' looks incorrect']. > [ unzipped binary. > zipped := self on: (FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: fullFileName). > buffer := ByteArray new: 50000. > [zipped atEnd] whileFalse: [unzipped nextPutAll: (zipped nextInto: > buffer)]] > ensure: [ > zipped close. > unzipped close]. > ^ newName > > Am I correct to think that the comments are not really good enough? > > Stef > > > >
