Re: Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von Datei
I just tried my trial copy of Winzip 6.3 and it didn't like the .deb
extension at all. :)
Dave
Hogland, Thomas E. wrote:
>
> 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...
>
> > ----------
> > From: Shaleh[SMTP:shaleh@livenet.net]
> > > 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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