Description: ------------ It seems like I MUST be doing something wrong, but this package is not working for me at all. It seemed to work fine for very small text files, but when I tried life-sized files of various types, the results always seem corrupted in various ways. The files are missing or truncated, or the names are truncated, and graphics files (eg PNG) are never readable. Test script: --------------- $files_to_zip = array(); $files_to_zip[] = "C:/Cree.png"; $files_to_zip[] = "C:/data.xml"; $zip_filename = "C:/test.tgz"; $oTar = new Archive_Tar( $zip_filename, "gz" ); $oTar->create( $files_to_zip ); Expected result: ---------------- I would expect it to generate a file called "test.tgz" that I could open with WinZIP (which is generally happy to open .TAR and .TGZ files). The tar file would contain two files: Cree.png and data.xml. Actual result: -------------- For the example above, I get a .TGZ file containing only the .PNG file, not the .XML one. And when I tried to open the .PNG, it is corrupted. When I tried using a different directory, I got slightly different but equally unsatisfactory results. I get similar results trying to generate an uncompressed .TAR file.

Sorry, I thought there would be a way to attch my sample files, but it doesn't seem to be possible to attach my .PNG.

Flickr or photobucket or something?

Even without the .PNG...just trying to zip up an .XML file (8 K) doesn't work--the file is truncated by a handful of characters (about 17-18). In one case I tried zipping 3 files. The first file is truncated and the name of the second file is embedded in it.

I'm seeing the same issue on an Ubuntu platform. I did a little more testing and found that the problem doesn't occur when just doing a "tar" file output but occurs when adding "gzip" compression. I also found that Revision 1.29 of Tar.php worked fine and Revision 1.32 had the problem. I tried to do a diff between the two revisions to see if I could see anything obvious but it wasn't clear what might be the culprit. BTW, I am using "addString" to add all the files to the archive. Another odd fact is that it works fine if I only add things like PDF files, JPG files, XLS files but if I add a Word doc (I tried several different Word files) it doesn't work. I'd be happy to provide more information if needed. Thanks!

Does revision 1.39 or above fix it ? 1.39 contains a rewrite of exactly what is diffed between 1.29 and 1.32 Archive_Tar-1.3.3 will soon be out, be on a look out and see if the issue still persists.

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I switched to using the File_Archive package instead. So I don't have an easy way to tell if the problem has been fixed.

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