tar archives.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I guess I have an enchanted computer.



On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:

> 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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