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IT Officer, School of Law
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:15 AM
To: Debian-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Alien to .tar.gz


Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi
>
> Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
> The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
> thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ...

<filename>.tgz == <filename>.tar.gz
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                      | everything is of great understanding,
'91 GS500E            | for belief in one false principle is the
Morgantown WV         | beginning of all unwisdom.


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