Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?

[John Bagdanoff <bagdanof@zork.zenon.orb>]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:28:31AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> 
> > Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander) gives me a 
> > red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child filter'
> 
> Hey, are you actually hitting F3 to view a deb file? The correct action,
> AFAIK, is to hit enter, and mc will display the virtual file system of the
> deb for you. When you want to view the files *inside* the deb, you need to
> press F3.
> 
> Though F3 on a deb should not give you a error message. I think it should
> give you a listing of the files inside the deb or perhaps some gibberish
> in an attempt to display the actual (binary) deb file, depending on your
> setup.
> 
> Similar things work for rpms, tar, and tar.gz files, by the way.
> 
> Again, try going with an out of the box setup.
> 
>                                          Faheem.
> 

I get the same red boxed error message with F-3, and just a flashing
screen with an 'enter'
When I quit mc, the xterm says:

gzip: mpcb_0.4-2_i386.deb: not in gzip format

John

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