Language functions used for unzipping an untarring?

[MichaelBrock]

The skin .pkg files appear to be bzip-ed tarballs. The VM release notes mention a tar_create() function but nothing about functions to un-tar and un-zip. Can we get some details on what these functions are and how to use them? Thanks,

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Language functions used for unzipping an untarring?

Alex and Mark are both out sick today but I will ask them about this tomorrow.

[Alex Kruglyak]

Re: Language functions used for unzipping an untarring?

The skin .pkg files appear to be bzip-ed tarballs. The VM release notes mention a tar_create() function but nothing about functions to un-tar and un-zip. Can we get some details on what these functions are and how to use them? Thanks,

Hi Michael,

The two functions you'd use are tar_create and tar_extract.

tar_create is accurate in our VM Release Notes. I'm not sure why our engine developer left out the extract function at the time.


tar_extract( l.file_location, 'data', l.extract_to, 'script' )}">

The first param is the location to your skin file
The second is the location's starting path - 'data' or 'script'.
The third is where you want to extract the contents.
And the last is extract_to starting path - 'data' or 'script'.


We'll make sure to fix our Release Notes in the next VM update.


Thanks,

Alex

[RayYates]

Re: Language functions used for unzipping an untarring?

Is their a way to unpack the .pkg file on a PC?

[Alex Kruglyak]

Re: Language functions used for unzipping an untarring?

Use bunzip2 to unpack the package.