The TarOutputStream writes a UNIX tar archive as an OutputStream. Methods are provided to put entries, and then write
their contents by writing to this stream using write().
Kerry Menzel Contributed the code to support file sizes greater than 2GB (longs versus ints).
Put an entry on the output stream. This writes the entry's header record and positions the output stream for
writing the contents of the entry. Once this method is called, the stream is ready for calls to write() to write
the entry's contents. Once the contents are written, closeEntry() MUST be called to ensure that all
buffered data is completely written to the output stream.
Parameters:
entry - The TarEntry to be written to the archive.
Close an entry. This method MUST be called for all file entries that contain data. The reason is that we must
buffer data written to the stream in order to satisfy the buffer's record based writes. Thus, there may be data
fragments still being assembled that must be written to the output stream before this entry is closed and the
next entry written.
public void write(byte[] wBuf,
int wOffset,
int numToWrite)
throws IOException
Writes bytes to the current tar archive entry. This method is aware of the current entry and will throw an
exception if you attempt to write bytes past the length specified for the current entry. The method is also
(painfully) aware of the record buffering required by TarBuffer, and manages buffers that are not a multiple of
recordsize in length, including assembling records from small buffers.
This method simply calls read( byte[], int, int ).