From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-01-16T21:21:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way for platf. independent compression?

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:29:05AM +0900, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> 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? :)

I don't know if you were serious.  In the (hopeful :-) ) case you
were, I'm forwarding a couple of messages of an ex ruby-talk reader
and his beginning of a translation from Perl's Archive::Tar, which
might be a good starting point.  A minimal extraction is really all we
need, and I'd really like to have tar.gz as a format for packages.

Massimiliano