>> I did used ar to unpack .deb several times, usually when I had to pull a file >> on a non-Debian system (or when I could not remember the dpkg-deb syntax >> and I was lazy, but that doesn’t count :) > same here. and not only this millenium, but also this decade :)
ar(1) is the only thing I've ever used to look inside a deb(5) file. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6