Anthony R. J. Ball [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>
*> Ahhh, but I don't have a directory to do tar cf - . in...
*>I am reading files in on a stream from Net::FTP and writing
*>them out to a stream block by block, and I want to translate
*>multiple files that I am downloading into a tar or zip file
*>on the fly in the middle. I would have to supply the filenames
*>then, with the streams. I'm sure this is possible, maybe not
*>with compression, but I'm not sure it it is possible with the tools
*>available.
Well, hmm, I know that search decompresses distributions on the fly to
display the documentation so going the other way is definitely do-able.
The catch here though might be giving it a list. What about having people
pick a list of files, dumping them into a directory and compressing that
dir. Also, GNU tar can read a list of files from a file that you might be
able to hack into something else if you don't want to write a file.
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