From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-31T07:55:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23878] Re: tar reader?

In article <20011030012549.8728.qmail@web13302.mail.yahoo.com>,
Al Chou  <hotfusionman@yahoo.com> wrote:
>--- Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 29 October 2001 03:55 pm, Al Chou wrote:

>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.
>
>I could just do a system call to untar the archives I'm dealing with, then
>delete the individual files when I've finished with them, 

do a `tar -tvf tarfile`
and you'll get a listing of what's in the tarfile, you won't have to 
delete anything when you're done.

>but that way I
>wouldn't get to contribute to the RAA. <g>  Besides, I'd rather code something
>more generally useful than a hack just to get this one task done.

Have at it.

Phil