7-zip or rar lib?

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Does anyone know of libs for manipulating 7-zip or rar archives in ruby? I know there are C libs available but don't really know where to start on wrapping them with ruby...

Thanks,
Tim

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This sounds interesting. I will investigate options for using 7-zip.
It seems they have LZMA SDK for supporting the 7z format.

I also found this: http://www.unrarlib.org. This only supports opening
(not creating) the RAR 2.0 format. Still it might be useful to have in
Ruby, and shouldn't be hard to wrap.

Ryan

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On 11/17/05, Tim <Tim.Ferrell@s0nspark.com> wrote:

Does anyone know of libs for manipulating 7-zip or rar archives in ruby?
I know there are C libs available but don't really know where to start
on wrapping them with ruby...

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Hi!

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At Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:40:20 +0900, Tim wrote:

Does anyone know of libs for manipulating 7-zip or rar archives in
ruby? I know there are C libs available but don't really know where
to start on wrapping them with ruby...

I'd like to add that it would also be helpful to have a library
capable of manipulating Stuffit archives.

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

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Hi!

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At Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:40:20 +0900, Tim wrote:

Does anyone know of libs for manipulating 7-zip or rar archives in
ruby? I know there are C libs available but don't really know where
to start on wrapping them with ruby...

I'd like to add that it would also be helpful to have a library
capable of manipulating Stuffit archives.

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

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The thing that got me asking is that I am a long time rar user but I noticed that latest 7-zip beat the best rar compression on a 60mb group of multimedia files by almost 8 megs...

There is also an unrar lib (with source) at WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

Thanks for looking into this!

Tim

Ryan Leavengood wrote:

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On 11/17/05, Tim <Tim.Ferrell@s0nspark.com> wrote:
  

Does anyone know of libs for manipulating 7-zip or rar archives in ruby?
I know there are C libs available but don't really know where to start
on wrapping them with ruby...
    
This sounds interesting. I will investigate options for using 7-zip.
It seems they have LZMA SDK for supporting the 7z format.

I also found this: http://www.unrarlib.org. This only supports opening
(not creating) the RAR 2.0 format. Still it might be useful to have in
Ruby, and shouldn't be hard to wrap.

Ryan