On Tuesday 30 January 2007 11:18:17 Arí Ricardo Ody wrote: > As I have troubles to remember the TAR functios and options I'm > trying to develop a graphical front end to run it. Then I need to > select files and/or directories from a visual dialog. > > Is there a way to do this via Lazarus components?
I don't know how you do it in a cross-platform way, but if it's just for Linux then the 'shell' function makes it easy to run shell commands from a Lazarus program. I'm developing a simple personal backup utility using tar to do the actual archiving work. If you're interested, have a look at the source code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/backerupper Eric _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
