From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T08:41:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27876] Re: tar reader (minimal) is working

On Friday 07 December 2001 03:15 pm, Albert Davidson Chou wrote:
> In case anyone cares, I finally was able to get a minimal amount of
> tar archive reading functionality by porting part of Perl's
> Archive::Tar (which is not a good example of coding style, IMO).  The
> code is in great need of cleanup, not to mention porting the rest of
> the functionality to be a proper tar utility, but at least it exists,
> in case anyone out there needs some level of tar archive access.

Good to hear...

You should look at Archive::Zip, which should translate pretty easily to 
Ruby. Its hierarchy should work for Archive::Tar as well, giving a unified 
archive reader.

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Ned Konz
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