From: Tim <Tim.Ferrell@...0nspark.com>
Date: 2005-11-18T04:54:23+09:00
Subject: Re: 7-zip or rar lib?

The thing that got me asking is that I am a long time rar user but I 
noticed that latest 7-zip beat the best rar compression on a 60mb group 
of multimedia files by almost 8 megs...

There is also an unrar lib (with source) at http://rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

Thanks for looking into this!

Tim

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Tim <Tim.Ferrell@s0nspark.com> wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know of libs for manipulating 7-zip or rar archives in ruby?
>> I know there are C libs available but don't really know where to start
>> on wrapping them with ruby...
>>     
>
> This sounds interesting. I will investigate options for using 7-zip.
> It seems they have LZMA SDK for supporting the 7z format.
>
> I also found this: http://www.unrarlib.org. This only supports opening
> (not creating) the RAR 2.0 format. Still it might be useful to have in
> Ruby, and shouldn't be hard to wrap.
>
> Ryan
>
>