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From: | mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: unpacking .deb's |
Date: | Wed, 26 May 99 15:18:54 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: > 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. Ah, I forgot that. You are right, thanks. The main remaining advantage is not filling up %TEMP% (which might be on a RAMDISK), then. Groente, Michel.
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