Handling Tar files through VB

[Oded]

do you know how i can create/extract tar files?<br>

any OCX or whatever?

 

[edderic]

What is a Tar File ?<br>
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Eric<br>
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[calahans]

Tar files are compressed unix backup files. I'd doubt you could untar them through VB. There is an NT version of the UNIX utilities calles MKSNT. Basically this app installs a bunch of exes which are basically the UNIX functions i.e. rm, sed, ps etc.. I'm not sure about tar.<br>
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Maybe you could use this, if you only have NT - I presume that if you had UNIX you would just use that for the tar.<br>
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HTH<br>
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C

 

[mrregan]

oded,<br>
There is nothing magic about tar files on a unix system. Unix can handle standard text files and there are also utilities to handle zip files. Why is the 'tar' format a necessity?