From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-04-23T16:58:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem Module tar.gz for windows, Hello Stephan, Friday, April 23, 2004, 9:49:05 AM, you wrote: SK> Well, there are tools to handle tar.gz files on Windows, too. Some are SK> shareware like TotalCommander, some are free as, e.g. zipgenius SK> (http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm), 7zip or many many others... Right, at the moment every packer i have seen in the last few years who can unpack zip can also unpack tar.gz files. SK> Some libs of course do work on a Unix machine only, if they use 'fork' SK> for example (But in these cases it doesn't matter a lot which language SK> uses those commands - if you program using system dependent command, SK> you'll get system dependent software). SK> A _lot_ of stuff works for Win32's and Unixes anyway, no matter how SK> they're packed. So the biggest problem might be the annoying difference SK> in handling EOLs - just a newline in one case and a newline carriage SK> return in the other. Hmm, never run into this problem. But it is really bad that the unix guys still can't write programs that works with spaces in the path name. I miss a enquote/dequote feature that escapes files for the shell. And the file path handling in ruby is also terrible. You never know if it is working, if the file is passed to system() you must use windows convention, on the other hand a lot of packages parses the string only with "/" characters. May these programmers burn in hell. -- Best regards, Lothar mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com