From: Quintus <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2010-10-17T16:37:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Virtual access to contents of compressed archive?

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Am 17.10.2010 04:03, schrieb Terry Michaels:
> Would there happen to be some cool module or extension out there that
> could take a compressed archive (tarball, zip, whatever... I'm
> open-minded) and provide a virtual directory and file i/o interface to
> it? That is, allow access and modification of the contents from within
> the program, while not actually extracting the contents to another file?
> 

There's the rubyzip gem ( http://rubygems.org/gems/rubyzip ), which
provides a module Zip::ZipFileSystem which does this I think. As the
name implies, this is for ZIP files.

Vale,
Marvin
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