Posted by Jonas Huckestein on 02/15/06 12:21

howdy,

i am currently writing an install-script for a program which will run on a
webserver. the idea is to use only one file and download the latest
up-to-date content etc on the fly. because i can't know the target system i
would like to download a bunch of files as a tar archive and extract it
using as little code as possible.

It works if i copy the entire pear archive_tar class into my code, but that
clutters up the file and is not necessary because i only want to extract a
standard non-zipped tar file.

i think the tar-idea is fairly good, only i don't know much about the tar
format and how to extract a tar archive with as little code as possible.

any help is greatly apreciated (maybe you even find the tar-idea
not-so-good?)

thanks in advance and
greetings, jonas

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