in reply to dar - pure perl directory archiver

Does Archive::Tar not work on windows? Or did you overlook that? Or did you rule that out (and if so, what reason)?

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Re^2: dar - pure perl directory archiver
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 06, 2005 at 21:36 UTC
    Archive::Tar does work on windows, as does it's tar clone, ptar.

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Re^2: dar - pure perl directory archiver
by Ctrl-z (Friar) on May 07, 2005 at 10:38 UTC
    No, it doesn't work. It flattens the directory structure and dumps all of the files in the root directory. For the same benchmark above it takes around 74 seconds and uses 80Mb of memory to do this.



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