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Re: Minimal Guile
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Minimal Guile |
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Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:13:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Noah Lavine <address@hidden> 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