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