From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T11:14:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23794] Re: tar reader?

On Monday 29 October 2001 05:25 pm, Al Chou wrote:

> Are you aware of the Zlib extension in the RAA?  I haven't tried to build
> it yet.

Yes, I've been using it. I had to put a patch in, though, to make it work 
with 1.7. The author gave it to me, but hasn't put it into the public version 
yet (as far as I know).

> I'm going to translate straight from Archive::Tar to Ruby for the first
> pass. I need it to work first, and I'll refactor later.  I don't need to
> deal with compressed tar files, which is a blessing.

Sounds reasonable. However, you'll have to strip some compression logic out 
of the Archive::Tar sources.

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Ned Konz
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