Browsing *.deb files with Midnight Commander (was: Re: nis install question)

1996-12-30 Thread Paul Seelig
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 t

Re: nis install question

1996-12-30 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Pete Templin wrote: > I'd like to look at the stuff for the nis package. Will anything break if > I do nothing more than install the nis debian package (i.e. is it a bad > thing to install on a machine which I kinda depend on?)? I hope to > migrate to nis sometime this summe

Re: nis install question

1996-12-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi there. Pete the perenial question-asker here. > >I'd like to look at the stuff for the nis package. Will anything break if >I do nothing more than install the nis debian package (i.e. is it a bad >thing to install on a