Tango zip or external command line zip

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Lester L. Martin II wrote:

> Dear Community,
> I am asking is Tango's zip ability enough to decompress its own zip
> package, dmd's and dsss's.  

Not yet, currently Tango can only do compressed streams.

> If not has anyone written a zip lib for D. I 
> would prefer to use a zip lib with commands like the following compared to
> tango's current zip. FastZip fz = new FastZip;
> fz.Extract(filein,fileout,filter); fz.Zip(dirin,fileout,filter);
> If we don't have this would it be easier to at installation time download
> a command line zip utility and call it to unzip items. Which is easier?
> Lester L. Martin II

We hope to have at least similar functionality through the vfs package
within a couple of releases.

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