From: shalofin@...
Date: 2006-07-20T19:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a Ruby library to untar a file.

Thiago,

I wish I could, unfortunately I am stuck on Windows for this one and
the only compression/decompression I can count on is the built-in
version Microsoft has.

Wayne

Thiago Jackiw wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> I don't think you need a library just to untar the a file, you can
> simply run `tar xzvf FILE` inside your ruby app and that should do it.
>
> Thiago
>
>
> On 7/19/06, shalofin@gmail.com <shalofin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a library to untar a file?  I use Zlib to gunzip,
> > but can't find any file to untar the resulting data.  Unfortunately I
> > can't get to www.ruby-lang.org right now (local network problem).
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> >