Eric, Are all of .deb files ar archives?I recall having tried to unpack some.deb files with ar, and that didn't work.
Whether they are all ar files, what were they before they were archive files? --David On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > My question is, basically, can I extract files from .deb format packages > > on a Windows box? Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of > > tar/cpio archive - can I get at the tar so that I can unpack it (I have > > Windows gzip, tar, etc utilities). > > > > deb files are `ar' archives, they contain gzipped tar files, one of > which contains the data, and another one contains the control scripts. > > HTH, > Eric > > -- > E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
