Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb file?
it's native ar format, i believe.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "User zos" <zos@starpower.fks.bt>
To: "John Bagdanoff" <bagdanof@zork.zenon.orb>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: mc (Midnight Commander): View (F3) does not work on a .deb
file?
> > 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
>
> It seems like the file associations are incorrectly set. For example, with
> MC I know that if you wish to view a .jpg it will load an image viewer for
> it. I don't know what compression format .deb files use though, nor have I
> ever played with mc's configuration files, but I know that is something
> that could probably be easily remedied with a bit of reading. :P
>
> -z-
>
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