Hi, > - Programmers manual, section 2: Currently, a Debian archive is an ar > archive with special requirements on the members. Should it be mentioned > here that that underlying format of a debian archive is ar? I think yes. And perhas add some note about ar x *.deb data.tar.gz | tax xvzf - Greetings Bernd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com