Re: Minimal Guile

[David Kastrup]

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