Re: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van de Meent) writes: > There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at > ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on > >ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ > > too. > The "mc_4.1-0.1_i386.deb" on "ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx

Re: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, David Wright wrote: [about MC and .deb files] There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ too. bye, Remco -- // Remco van de Meent //

MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)

1997-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I use Midnight Commander for this. It has a feature that lets you "dive" > into a .deb file (it may require a patch to mc.ext, see below) and "view" > the contents. You can also copy any file you see "out" to another > directory using Midnight Commander.

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-28 Thread Paul Wade
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any > >> > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with > >> > out doing > >> > > >> > dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >> > > >> > and then moving the one

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-28 Thread liiwi
>> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Sep 28 14:58:51 1997 >> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb >> > >> > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >> > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > > I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any > way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with > out doing > > dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > > and t

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Klee Dienes
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > [...] > > There may be others? The 'official' way to do th

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Brian K Servis wrote: > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > ar -x .deb data.tar.gz > tar zxvf data.tar.gz > rm data.tar.gz > > There may be others? Well, this gets rid of the temp files: ar p file.deb data.tar.gz | ta

Re: extract only PART of an archive

1997-09-27 Thread Brian K Servis
Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > >I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with >out doing > >dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >and then moving the one file and