On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:28:31AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) gives me > > a > > red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child filter' > > Hey, are you actually hitting F3 to view a deb file? The correct action, > AFAIK, is to hit enter, and mc will display the virtual file system of the > deb for you. When you want to view the files *inside* the deb, you need to > press F3. > > Though F3 on a deb should not give you a error message. I think it should > give you a listing of the files inside the deb or perhaps some gibberish > in an attempt to display the actual (binary) deb file, depending on your > setup. > > Similar things work for rpms, tar, and tar.gz files, by the way. > > Again, try going with an out of the box setup. > > Faheem. >
I get the same red boxed error message with F-3, and just a flashing screen with an 'enter' When I quit mc, the xterm says: gzip: mpcb_0.4-2_i386.deb: not in gzip format John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
