On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:17:28AM +1000, Philip Warner wrote:
> At 14:58 12/07/00 +0100, Peter Mount wrote:
> >Why not have it using something like tar, and the first file being stored in
> >ascii?
> >
> >That way, you could extract easily the human readable SQL but still pipe the
> >blobs to stdout.
>
> If anyone can send me a nice interface for reading and writing a tar file
> from C, I'll do it. I just don't have the inclination to learn about tar
> internals at the moment. By 'nice' I mean that I would like:
i suspect you might find a library of either tar or cpio read functions as
part of the FreeBSD sysinstall utility.
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