tar archives.

[Frank Carmickle]

Hi chuck and all

Well I don't have a clue about what you guys are talking about.  Such
things as less or cat should show you the compressed infomation which is
very much a binary.  Chuck sent me his version of less and it works just
the way I thought just like mine did.  I can understand zcat and zless
showing you the tar archive one file at a time like it does.  It however
certainly doesn't give me a file listing.  


     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec at dryrose.com

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 
> Hi Frankie -
> 
> My less shows me a directory listing of .tgz files resembling the ones
> produced by "ls -l". I just type "less filename.tgz"  and there it is. I
> compared that with the "tar -xtf filename.tgz" method, and found that all
> the same files were shown, except the latter method shows only the names -
> not permissions, ownership, etcetera. My less reports 354 as a version
> number. I did nothing special here to make it happen (at least not on
> purpose!)
> 
> Chuck
>  On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chuck
> > How do you get less to view what's in a tarball?  If you use zless maybe
> > you could see that with out using other means but less doesn't know how to
> > gunzip.
> > 
> >      Frank Carmickle
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
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