On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Tomas Fischer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have started using ruby.
> A current task is to get a tar.gz file from internet and extract it.
> I find the zlib class und so I can extract the downloaded file to
> a .tar one.
>
> How can I extract this file?
> I found old postings on groups.google which use
> Archive::Tar::Minitar. Is this still the way to handle tar file with
> ruby,
> or are there classes in standard lib?
>
> What is the ruby-way: Install the extra package or call external  
> program
> tar (my ruby program is suggested to run only on Linux plattforms)?

I tend to favor calling external programs when I know they'll be there.

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