tars and zips

[Robin Becker]

In article <3AD5F88E.13C645D5 at packeteer.com>, Bob Purvy
<bpurvy at packeteer.com> writes
>hi all,
>
>I have a feeling this is something for which the answer is "get a real
>computer", but anyway:
>
>    - on our pSOS platform, we don't have any support for tar, zip, or
>any other archive format.  I have Python 2.0 more or less working on it,
>and I've been trying to use the zipfile.py Lib module.  Can someone give
>me the short answer on how to inflate a zip file that's been created
>somewhere else?  There doesn't seem to be any trivial way to do it,
>unless I'm missing something.
>
>    First of all, I haven't found any references to a Python tar module
>anywhere.  Am I correct that that doesn't exist?
>
>Anyway, for zip:  I've gotten as far as importing zipfile, creating the
>ZipFile object, and listing its contents.  But do I need to write some
>Python code to iterate through the files, doing read for each one and
>then writing it?  I haven't found any single 'inflate' method anywhere,
>nor the equivalent of 'tar xf'.


what about building the unzip/zip from

        ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/UnZip.html
                                              /Zip.html
-- 
Robin Becker