Hi Thomas,
For reading/writing tar files, I have successfully used the tar.jar file that was authored by Timothy Gerard Endres, [EMAIL PROTECTED], This work has been placed into the public domain. More information is available from the following URL: http://www.gjt.org/pkgdoc/com/ice/tar/index.html
I am not sure if this supports gzip or not, however you can definitely pipe tar files on the fly though.
Hope this helps.
Steve
Thomas L Roche wrote:
Care to recommend libraries/API for generating GZIP archives?
My group's build/install group creates multi-GB archives that we poor coders hafta download, twiddle, and install. Unfortunately they currently generate only .zip, which means one must download the whole damn thing before one can start to decompress and use it: it can't be piped the way tar/gzip'ed archives can. One objection they have raised is that they don't know of code that will generate .gz: I'd like to overcome that objection.
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