[Q] Reading tar.gz archives from inside Squeak

> I've made space (in Archive) for other kinds of archives. It'll take a bit of
> refactoring. My plan was to add Tar archives at some point. That should be
> easy. Unfortunately, support for .tar.gz  (compressed Tar) archives would
> require multiple passes through the decompression to be able to extract
> individual files -- one pass to get the members built, then for each member,
> a scan through all the compressed data to the member start. Compressed tar
> files are so ugly compared to zip files...
>
> The problem with .gz files is that they're a degenerate form of archive: they
> can only hold one file! So the viewer would have to enquire of the archive
> whether adding was possible.

> Doing some google , I found this from Ned and from a long time ago...
>
>  
>> I've made space (in Archive) for other kinds of archives. It'll take a bit of
>> refactoring. My plan was to add Tar archives at some point. That should be
>> easy. Unfortunately, support for .tar.gz  (compressed Tar) archives would
>> require multiple passes through the decompression to be able to extract
>> individual files -- one pass to get the members built, then for each member,
>> a scan through all the compressed data to the member start. Compressed tar
>> files are so ugly compared to zip files...
>>
>> The problem with .gz files is that they're a degenerate form of archive: they
>> can only hold one file! So the viewer would have to enquire of the archive
>> whether adding was possible.
>>    
>
> I wish know if some Squeaker have a newer code or examples.
>
> Now what I see how nice SkinsII is and use the themes what Todd suggest, I
> wish have a collection of themes , inside Squeak.
>
> Any lead or clues was appreciated.
>
> Edgar
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