On Jan 4, 2008 5:34 AM, Luis Lavena <luislavena / gmail.com> wrote:
> They are inside the compressed tar.gz and tar.bz2 files... how I'm
> supposed to get them if I don't decompress them first? :-D
>
> So: if someone have a pure-ruby (with aditional gem or extension) that
> allow us extract content from:
>
> - .zip (deflate) files
> - .gz (of .tar.gz) files
> - .bz2 (of .tar.bz2) files
>
> All without these dependencies, feel free to modify rake/
> extracttask :-)

.gz and .tar.gz files aren't hard to deal with since a working Ruby
1.8.5 is a prerequisite. Look at minitar, and the zlib library is part
of a working Ruby 1.8.5 install.

-austin
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