Showing a progress bar while SFX archive is extracting

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Hello,

I'm writing a program with C++ and by native Win32 API. I'm creating a process from a SFX archive EXE in silent mode that no GUI is shown to user. But I want to show a progress bar in my application, while the SFX archive extracting.

How can I do that?

Thanks.

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