Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > >> To keep it GNU, I looked around to see what library-style GNU >> solutions exist for treating an archive file like a filesystem. >> Oddly, no good documented (L)GPL GNU options dealing with tar, cpio, >> pax, or 'ar' in an API way. But, there is a solution for .iso >> files: libiso9660 from GNU libcdio. > > Emacs has the ability to look inside tar files, so there might be > something in there.
No, it doesn't. It just reads the whole tar file into a buffer, and picks out parts on demand. Convenient, but a memory hog. -- David Kastrup
