Visual Basic Edit Tar Archive

Question

Is it possible for vb to extract files from tar(and put them back)? I found this but it says that

Dim tar As New ChilkatTar  <<<< ChilkatTar does not exist

I am trying to edit one xml file(which is not compressed) but if i do that with notepad, the tar becomes corrupt

Answer 1

ChilkatTar is a commerical component that you'd need to purchase, you can find it here:

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/tar-dotnet.asp

7-zip supports unpacking and packing TAR files and is free so you could probably execute the command line version of it from your app to do the packing/unpacking. It is also open source, so you might even be able to copy the source into a library to use from your own application if you prefer, assuming that it's license is compatible with your needs.

http://www.7-zip.org/