Hello,
On 16-Nov-99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sterling wrote:
>> Hey, a great script idea that I've been wanting to do for some time
> is write the code to parse in and write out standard gzip headers so
> then REBOL could read and write standard gzip'd files. I think you'd
> also have to write the particular checksum code that's in gzip but for
> a decompression first pass you could skip the checksum check.
>>
>> Next step after that: TAR
>
> REBOL Enhancement request:
>
> read/zip %MyZipFile.zip ; produces a block of data.
> read/tar %MyTarFile.tar
> etc...
>
> write/zip %MyZipFile.zip [; Block of data]
> write/tar %MyTarFile.tar [; Block of data]
> etc...
>
> write/tar %MyTarFile.tar read/zip %MyZipFile.zip
> etc...
>
> Andrew Martin
> It seemed an innocent enough request at the time...
So you want to start bloating Rebol like Windows? :)
Maybe Rebol could USE each of these archivers like some of the external
archiver GUIs do, execute the archiver sending and recieving parameters and
data with the archiver.
Elliott
