Re: [Chicken-users] How to use the tar egg?

[John Cowan]

Peter Busser scripsit:

> Perhaps a stupid question, but how does one open and iterate through a
> tar-file using the tar egg?

Basically you open the tar-file using with-open-file and then repeatedly
invoke tar:open-archived-file on it.  Each call will give you a port
for the next file in the archive, as well as a header object; you get
#!eof and #f instead when there are no more files in the archive.

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