Creating a TAR file in C++

I just wrote a C++ class creating a Tar file. The source code is available at:http://github.com/.../tarball.h. Creating such archive is useful when a web server should return a set of files or when a tool generates a whole bunch of files.

	#include <iostream>
	#include <fstream>
	#include <cstdlib>
	#include "lindenb/io/tarball.h"
	int main(int argc,char** argv)
	{
	/* open file for writing */
	std::fstream out("archive.tar",std::ios::out);
	if(!out.is_open())
	{
	std::cerr << "Cannot open out" << std::endl;
	return EXIT_FAILURE;
	}
	/* create the tar file */
	lindenb::io::Tar tarball(out);
	/* add item 1 */
	tarball.put("myfiles/item1.txt","Hello World 1\n");
	/* add item 2 */
	tarball.put("myfiles/item2.txt","Hello World 2\n");
	/* add a file */
	tarball.putFile("tarfile.cpp","myfiles/code.cpp");
	/* finalize the tar file */
	tarball.finish();
	/* close the file */
	out.close();
	/* we're done */
	return EXIT_SUCCESS;;
	}

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Example

~> g++ -Wall -I ${PATH_TO_SRC}/cclindenb/src/core
tarfile.cpp
~> ./a.out
~> tar tvf archive.tar
-rw-r--r-- pierre/users 14 2010-08-03 20:50 myfiles/item1.txt
-rw-r--r-- pierre/users 14 2010-08-03 20:50 myfiles/item2.txt
-rw-r--r-- pierre/users 692 2010-08-03 20:50 myfiles/code.cpp

tar xvf archive.tar --to-stdout myfiles/item1.txt 2> /dev/null
Hello World 1

That's it,
Pierre