Car

What is car?

Car is a library and program for creating archives from sets of files and reading files from an archive. Archives are accessed with functions similar to the stdio functions in C (fopen, fread, ...). An archive can contain directories and symlinks.

Latest news

Last updated Tuesday, 08-Feb-2005 08:01:03 UTC car 0.2.1 fixes compilation problems   mru - 2002-01-25 02:21   -   Car
There were some problems compiling version 0.2.0 on Solaris. This has now been fixed. Release 0.2.1 has been succesfully compiled and partially tested on Linux (Alpha and x86), Solaris(SPARC) and OSF1/Tru64 UNIX (Alpha).
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Car 0.2.0 available   mru - 2002-01-14 07:04   -   Car
Car 0.2.0 is now released. The API has been cleaned up and is more consistent. A function car_scandir has been added. Guess what it does.
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Critical update   mru - 2001-03-30 02:10   -   Car
Car 0.1.6 fixes a bug when loading big archives. Previous version might produce a segmentation fault. Update is highly recommended.
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Fixes for big endian   mru - 2001-02-27 03:19   -   Car
Car now works properly on big endian machines.
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Car 0.1.4   mru - 2001-02-23 08:40   -   Car
Car now works on at least Linux, Solaris and Digital UNIX. Libtc 0.2.1 is required. A few bugs have been fixed.
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Requirements

To compile car you need libtc 0.3.1 or later. GNU make is also required.

Car compiles and runs on at least Linux/Alpha, Linux/x86, Solaris/Sparc and Tru64 UNIX/Alpha. Old versions of car have been tested on other platforms as well.

Download

The latest release is available on the project page.

Author

Car is written by Måns Rullgård <mru@users.sourceforge.net> . If you like it, please tell me. Bug reports, patches, comments, and suggestions are welcome.
Måns Rullgård
Last modified: Friday, 25-Jan-2002 10:43:36 UTC
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