* Thus wrote John Ryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I read
> in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me.
>
> I tried opening the file with fopen
> fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz", "r");
> but it didnt work
>
> Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I
> think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle ".tar"
What are you trying to do with the file? A tar file can contain
multiple files and have a directory structure.
Curt
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