Tk Library Source Code

The attached patch adds a "-chan" option to [contents/stat/get/untar/create]  (but *not* [add/remove], foor good reasons), which interprets the first argument as a channel name instead of filename. This allows to pass already opened channels, seekable or not. One typical usage is the emulation of 'tar cf - | ...':

   ::tar::create  $pipe  $listoffiles -chan

Which is typically useful for Wub, to serve content that is to be tarred on-the-fly, instead of (currently) using tempfiles.
The same applies on input, where seek is emulated by repeated reads when the channel is not seekable; similarly a "tar tf -" can thus be done on any pipe or socket.

Note that the responsibility for 'fconfigure -translation binary' is left to the caller; only raw IO are done on the provided channel, and it is left open on return. 

I have not included the (needed) documentation update; I would appreciate a hand since I don't have the renderer handy ;-)

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Applied to head. Re-indented.
Package version bumped to 0.7
Updated documentation.

pushing prio after chat with Andreas ;-)

File Added - 399270: tarchan.patch