From: Michel Casabianca <michel.casabianca@...>
Date: 2006-12-04T07:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Library to read/write TAR files


Le 3 d�c. 06 � 19:19, Jeremy Hinegardner a �crit :

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 06:30:12AM +0900, Michel Casabianca wrote:
>> I'm looking for a library to read/write TAR files. I've had a look on
>> RubyForge and searched for one on Google but found nothing (except an
>> old library that doesn't seem to be maintained anymore). Does anyone
>> know such a library?
>
> Archive::Tar::Minitar is what you're looking for I believe.  Its  
> part of
> the ruwiki project.
>
>     http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruwiki/
>
> % gem search --remote minitar
> archive-tar-minitar (0.5.1, 0.5.0)
>     Provides POSIX tarchive management from Ruby programs
>
> And from the RDoc for it:
>
>     Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line
>     utility that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1)  
> archive
>     files.
>
> I've used it several times with great success.

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for!

> enjoy,

Believe me, I do!

Regards
--
Michel Casabianca
michel.casabianca@gmail.com