On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 17:13, Luis Lavena <redmine / ruby-lang.org> wrote: > If jar is what you want, maybe JRuby is what you need. > > For something similar to "jar" you might take a look to tar2rubyscript: > > http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/ Thanks for your comment. The goal of this project is what I meant. http://rubysoc.org/projects Project #18: Ruby Archive Format My comment for project members, if they hear. Please please please do NOT reinvent a new format. It won't be secure. It may not be consistent. It may not be interoprerable. It should not be easily implemented. Regards, // NaHi