Version 3 of TarKit

TR - Starkits are fun! This is a piece of code to explore the possiblilites of a writeable Starkit. It all ended in a quite usable program. It is the logical continuation of the script on . Thanks to jcw and all Tcl folks, this could be assembled in an afternoon! It uses a Tablelist widget for nicer listing and some more features than the prototype on the Wiki.

I called it TarKit because it is like 'tar'. But TarKit could also stand for Tcl ARchive KIT ...

Get the program as a starkit here: [L1 ]

The program is like the unix utility 'tar'. It is a container into which you can add files. The files are copied into the Starkit and stay there togehter with the program code itself. So what you have is a form of a self-extracting and self-containing archive that is platform independant using Tclkit! It's all in one file.

But there is one important question: Removing a file from the archive won't let the Starkit shrink in size. How can that be achieved??

Feel free to comment, improve, and critisize.

Category Tclkit