Posted by Tyrone Slothrop on 02/15/06 17:25

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:21:07 +0100, Jonas Huckestein
<Jonas.Huckestein@web.de> wrote:

>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

Just run a system() or exec() call and use the command to extract the
file as you would from the shell.

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