Description: ------------ there is a problem with the calls to bzopen: when creating an Archive_File object with bz2 compression and calling createModify for instance, the call will fail with this error: Warning: bzopen() [function.bzopen]: 'wb' is not a valid mode for bzopen(). Only 'w' and 'r' are supported. in [some path}\Tar.php on line 602 Unable to open in write mode '[some file]' suggested patch: Index: Archive_Tar/Archive/Tar.php =================================================================== @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ if ($this->_compress_type == 'gz') $this->_file = @gzopen($this->_tarname, "wb9"); else if ($this->_compress_type == 'bz2') - $this->_file = @bzopen($this->_tarname, "wb"); + $this->_file = @bzopen($this->_tarname, "w"); else if ($this->_compress_type == 'none') $this->_file = @fopen($this->_tarname, "wb"); else works for me.

By the way, I don't know if the bug is dependant on the version of php. And I haven't checked the behaviour of bzopen without the "b" with regards to \n ; but I assume it's faithfull to the binary representation of the file originally encoded, I don't see how the "smart" textual behaviour could be preserved through the compression anyway... Though that might be because it is very late here and I am extremely tired.

sure enough, it's in the source, which has not been modified for 2 years or more

This bug has been fixed in CVS. If this was a documentation problem, the fix will appear on pear.php.net by the end of next Sunday (CET). If this was a problem with the pear.php.net website, the change should be live shortly. Otherwise, the fix will appear in the package's next release. Thank you for the report and for helping us make PEAR better.