[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) wrote on 28.04.96 in <Pine.BSD/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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. Well, if you get the tar file to stdout, what is keeping you from simply piping it into tar? dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile ... | tar xf - ... Anything wrong with that? MfG Kai
