On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Are you an Emacs user? If so, try my "deb-view" for emacs. It lets you > browse Debian deb files without unpacking or installing. You can look at > control files, man pages, etc. You can even copy individual files out of > the deb file. (It's based on tar-mode). > The latest development versions of the "GNU Midnight Commander" are enabled to handle *.deb files just the same way.
The main MC developer Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> included direct Debian support by adding the Debian package maintainer's scripts to the regular distribution upon my request. A really nice guy! It was actually a matter of just a few days after my request until he put out a new development version of MC containing the requested code! :-) The latest devel version mc-3.5.13.tar.gz (which i am running without problems) can be obtained at "ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx/Midnight/devel/"; or from various mirrors as indicated at the GNU Midnight Commander homepage at "http://stekt.oulu.fi/~jtklehto/mc/";. The GNU MC homepage is actually temporarily down but still contains various pointers to FTP sites. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
