Re: [Nautilus-list] Tar content view

[David Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

You probably don't want to untar the archive for performance reasons.  If
you look at the documentation for tar on www.gnu.org you should find a
section detailing the tar format.  It is a fairly simple format so it
shouldn't be too hard to implement (at least that is iff you don't try to
support the 100 different variations of the format, yuck!).  Also you
might want to look into libtar.  I wasn't able to build it so I don't know
what kind of condition it is in, but it appears to support
reading/writing/creating tar files...  The advantage of using libtar as a
basis for a gnome-vfs module would be that even non-gnome (maybe even
non-linux) programs could use it...

If I recall correctly, gnome-vfs has a module which supports tar archives.
Does anyone know why this is broken?

On 25 Jan 2002, Michael Petnuch wrote:

> Looking at the recent messages about regaining the functionality of the
> gmc program in respect to viewing a tar archive, I would like to offer
> to write it.  I just have a few questions.  Is it acceptable to use an
> external program like tar to untar the archives.  Also any pointers
> before I start writing would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>

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