Re: Open tar.gz /tgz, bz2 with mutt

2001-12-11 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan 

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 Abu spewed into the ether:
 I want open file (tar.gz,tgz,bz2) on the fly with mutt,
 like open .pdf file, how can i do it with mutt?

Dave Pearson has a neat mutt.octet.filter here :

http://www.davep.org/mutt/

I find it quite cool :-)

pv.

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Open tar.gz /tgz, bz2 with mutt

2001-12-10 Thread Abu 

I want open file (tar.gz,tgz,bz2) on the fly with mutt,
like open .pdf file, how can i do it with mutt?


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Re: Open tar.gz /tgz, bz2 with mutt

2001-12-10 Thread David T-G 

Abu --

...and then Abu said...
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% I want open file (tar.gz,tgz,bz2) on the fly with mutt,
% like open .pdf file, how can i do it with mutt?

Well, you need to define open.  A PDF file is read, but a tar file
contains other files to be extracted.

If it's just a text file, you could zcat it and trap the output.  If not,
though, you're probably interested in the contents of the tar file,
though perhaps in extracting the files somewhere, and so you'd probably
want to write a wrapper script that takes the file as an argument and
then asks for input or such.


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