On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I needed only one *.el from emacs-el-19.30. In trying to get at this > one file, it was necessary to extract the (about) 10MB of the package > into a temporary directory. I tried dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile, but this > just seemed to extract the contents of the tar file to standard > output. It would have helped to have been able to extract a file, as > one can do with tar files.
dpkg --fsys-tarfile package.deb | tar xf - filename ...ought to do the trick. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
