Re: GTK solution for tar archive for multi volume disks

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Günther Rapp wrote:

>Hallo to all 
>
>I am looking for a gtk solution to make a tar archive to to multi volume
>diskettes.
>The application should detect the tar messages to change the volume and
>the user
>should click on a ok button after changed the media.
>I have no idea how to get the output from the tar command on stderr
>(LINUX Redhat 7.2)
>  
>
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Spawning-Processes.html#g-spawn-async-with-pipes
should do the trick.

>to change the media to gtk widget and than to send the RETURN command to
>tar to continue
>as a callback result clicked on a OK button.
>Who has made a equal solution in the past.
>
>Best Regards
>guenther
>  
>
Have you considered `libtar' ? I'm not sure how portable it is, how widely
used it is or anything but it would save you the trouble of programatically
using the command line.


Cheers,
                -Tristan