On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 7:29 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I uploaded a new version. I got sidetracked by an experiment. We can
> read from zip files, but as I had some tar archives I wondered if we
> could read from them. They happened to be compressed. It uses an already
> present infrastructure (early mkiv I played a bit with reading from zip
> files).
>
>
libarchive looks quite useful
http://libarchive.org/
(see
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/community/team-blog/2017/20171219-tar-and-curl-come-to-windows
)



-- 
luigi