TAR & ZIP in C

[logic2fun]

Friends,
I am actually reading a set of files in C program. Once i finish performing some transformations I need to ZIP and Tar these input files. Right now the idea i have is using a SYSTEM command to run the UNIx command.

Do we have any better way of doing this instead of SYSTEM command ?

thanks for your input.
Logic

 

[olded]

Instead of using system, you might also consider the fork command. search for "fork" in this forum and you'll see a number of threads.

Also, this article might be useful:

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1222/sam1031248793855/a6.htm

 

[ArkM]

As far as I know there are several freeware C libraries for built-in compression/decompression data directly in your programs without external utilities, pipes and other stuff.
Regrettably, I have never used them. Search Google (tar zip C library etc) and try to select...