RE: Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von Datei
Actually, Winzip (since 6.x anyway) can handle the format fine. It takes a
couple passes, though, and I've had problems sometimes with Linux trying to
read the results, but if the objective is just to unwrap a package to see
what's in there it will work...
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> From: Shaleh[SMTP:shaleh@livenet.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 9:53 AM
> To: Ralf G. R. Bergs
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von
> Datei
>
> > He would like to know whether he can also extract DEB files under
> Windoze,
> > possibly from within a graphical (GUI) program.
>
> If Winzip handles ar packed files, then it can be used. a deb is an ar
> package
> containing two tar.gz files. Winzip does handle tar.gz fine. So worst
> case is
> he ar extracts the tar.gz in linux and then looks at the tar.gz in
> Windows.
>
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