From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
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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.