From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: unpacking .deb's
Date: Wed, 26 May 99 10:56:52
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I remember someone asking here for a way to unpack a Debian package
.deb file without LFNs. In ftp://alpha.gnu.org/hurd/debian/README, I
found an answer:

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. Of course,
the key is the p option to `ar'.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

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*Groeten, Michel*.      _http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter_
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