[gdal-dev] Support for reading GDAL datasets in compressed archives(.gz and .zip)

[Frank Warmerdam]

Baumann, Konstantin wrote:
> Hi Even!
> 
> That sounds cool. Is there also a function for retrieving all available
> files inside of a ZIP archive?

Kosta,

Programatically this can presumably be accomplished with VSIReadDir()
(aka CPLReadDir()).

char CPL_DLL **VSIReadDir( const char * );

The VSI filesystem operations should generally work on virtual
file systems, though in the case of the zip driver I presume all the
update operations (like VSIRename() or VSIUnlink()) are unimplemented.

Best regards,
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