The minitar library is a pure-Ruby library that operates on POSIX tar(1) archive files. minitar (previously called Archive::Tar::Minitar) is based heavily on code originally written by Mauricio Julio Fernández Pradier for the rpa-base project.
<tt>minitar-cli</tt> is a pure-Ruby command-line tool that uses {minitar}[https://github.com/halostatue/minitar] to provide a command-line tool, +minitar+, for working with POSIX tar(1) archive files.
'archive-tar-minitar' has been deprecated; just install 'minitar'. The minitar library is a pure-Ruby library that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. This is release 0.12. This is likely the last revision before 1.0. minitar (previously called Archive::Tar::Minitar) is based heavily on code originally written by Mauricio Julio Fernández Pradier for the rpa-base project.
Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility that provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. The implementation is based heavily on Mauricio Ferna'ndez's implementation in rpa-base, but has been reorganised to promote reuse in other projects. Antoine Toulme forked the original project on rubyforge to place it on github, under http://www.github.com/atoulme/minitar