NAME

Meta::Tool::Tar - library to run tar for archiving.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Tar.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.11

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Tool::Tar qw();
        Meta::Tool::Tar::unpack("myfile.tar.gz","/tmp");

DESCRIPTION

This object will tar up - you can create tar archives, add, remove and do whatever you want with them.

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        unpack($$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

Bootstrap method to find your tar executable.

unpack($$)

Give this method a package name (file name) and a destination directory and the package will unpack the package into that directory.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module. This method should be called by some higher level to perform full regression testing for the entire software package this class comes with. This method can also be call by the user to make sure that this package functions properly.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV perl order in packages
        0.01 MV perl packaging
        0.02 MV md5 project
        0.03 MV database
        0.04 MV perl module versions in files
        0.05 MV movies and small fixes
        0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.08 MV website construction
        0.09 MV web site automation
        0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.11 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Meta::Utils::File::Patho(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.