Date:	Wed, 26 May 1999 13:27:09 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
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Subject:	Re: unpacking .deb's
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On Wed, 26 May 1999 mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl wrote:

> ar p /SOME/DIR/PACKAGE.deb data.tar.gz | tar -zxvpf -
> 
> I think, with DJGPP, it is better to do this in two steps:
> 
> ar p /SOME/DIR/PACKAGE.deb data.tar.gz > data.tgz
> djtarx data.tgz
> 
> This allows auto-filename-conversion as built into djtar.

Why is the latter better than using the DJGPP port of GNU Tar?
Tar implements almost the same name-conversion as DJTAR does.

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