From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-01-21T00:55:08+09:00
Subject: Archive::Tar and zlib

Hi.

The good news is I have a minimal tar reader working.  The bad news is
it's a bit crufty.

The good news is it's very small and quite easy to follow.

The bad news is Ruby-zlib 0.4 crashes on code like this:

----->8-----
#!/usr/pkg/bin/ruby
require 'zlib'

fp = File.new(ARGV[0])
nfp = File.new(ARGV[1], 'w')
zfp = GzipReader.new(fp)

while content = zfp.read(512)
                nfp.write(content)
end

nfp.close
zfp.close
fp.close
-----8<----

which I happen to use quite a lot :)

The worse news is according to sloccount, it's going to cost you $3,970
worth of cookies (not bad for 160 lines of code).

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst  -  freaky@aagh.net  -  http://www.aagh.net/
-
The rain it raineth on the just
	And also on the unjust fella,
But chiefly on the just, because
	The unjust steals the just's umbrella.