So I'm actually feeling pretty good about myself because I wrote my own version of tar for my systems programming class. I'd like to take it a step further by implementing compression, but I can't find any information about how the system tar calls gzip to compress data. Is there anywhere I can find information about how I would implement this, or even write my own basic compression?
That's awesome anon, good work. Review the tar source code for clues as to how you'd reimplement this
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Thanks! That does seem like a rather obvious place to start. I wanting to keep from viewing the source as much as possible and just using what I already know, but at this point that's probably just an unnecessary handicap
>>59238810
excellent idea faggot, maybe you can reinvent pipelines next