From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T06:26:34+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby archiver

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 04:25:10 +0900, Martin DeMello
<martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any pure-ruby way to pack multiple files into a single file,
> and unpack them later? Compression is optional.

As a matter of fact, you can use either Jamis Buck's tar.rb or my
forthcoming Archive::Tar::Minitar based on work by Mauricio Fernandez
(aka batsman). I'm putting some finishing touches on documentation and
the command line utility, but:

C:\home\Projects\minitar>ruby bin/minitar help commands
The commands known to minitar are:

    minitar create          Creates a new tarfile.
    minitar extract         Extracts files from a tarfile.
    minitar list            Lists files in the tarfile.

All commands accept the options --verbose and --progress, which are
mutually exclusive. In "minitar list", --progress means the same as
--verbose.

  --verbose, -V     Performs the requested command verbosely.
  --progress, -P    Shows a progress bar, if appropriate, for the action
                    being performed.

C:\home\Projects\minitar>ruby bin/minitar --progress create tests.tar tests
tests.tar:     100% |oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo| Time: 00:00:00

C:\home\Projects\minitar>ruby bin/minitar ls -l tests.tar
drwxr-xr-x    0                          0 Sep 06 16:38 tests
-rw-r--r--   38                      19749 Sep 06 16:38 tests/tc_tar.rb
-rw-r--r--    0                        477 Aug 27 14:14 tests/testall.rb

C:\home\Projects\minitar>ruby bin/minitar --progress extract tests.tar -o tests2
tests.tar:     100% |oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo| Time: 00:00:00

-austin
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