From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@...>
Date: 2002-01-15T08:58:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way for platf. independent compression?

I think someone already did a ruby tar implementation.

There was a thread here about that a couple of months back.

Ralph

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Hurst" <tom.hurst@clara.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Best way for platf. independent compression?


> * Massimiliano Mirra (list@chromatic-harp.com) wrote:
> 
> > Yet I would agree even more if it were possible to reimplement a
> > minimalistic tar-gzipped compatible format in Ruby by using ruby/zlib.
> > Does it sound too optimistic?  (I don't even know if it sounds
> > realistic, I've *no* experience on compression.)
> 
> The tar format is rather simple.  With zlib support, and a minimal
> extract-only tar implimentation in Ruby, tgz support shouldn't be too
> hard.
> 
> Want me to start on a Ruby tar implimentation? :)
> 
> -- 
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> -
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