Erik, Thanks for the link, I'll see if I can do something with it...who knows maybe it will end up as a library. Wayne Erik Veenstra wrote: > Have a look at tarrubyscript.rb in tar2rubyscript.tar.gz [1]. > It might be a good start. Although I'm not sure it can > handle every kind of TAR file... > > By the way, that code was written by from Thomas Hurst, long > time ago... > > Oh, it's not a library; it's code. > > gegroet, > Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/ > > [1] http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/index.html