Re: dealing with compression

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 08:37 AM, e.sammer wrote:

> greetings all:
>
> i'm working on a project that requires that i work with tar'd, gzip'd, 
> and bzip'd files. what i really need to do is have full control over 
> the archives in memory (single entry extract, full extract, file info 
> extract, etc.) rather than going to disk first.
>
> i was curious if anyone has already written objc wrappers for zlib, 
> tar, bzip, etc. (without just using NSTask, if possible)

I'm not sure it's at all appropriate, but there is some zlib support 
built in as a GNUstep extension to NSFileHandle
in the base library ... enough to read/qrite zipped files directly doing 
decompression/compresion on the fly.