On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 06:41:29 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > And also, is there a tool to browse zip files...like how midnight > > > commander is able to browse tar.gz files without decompressing them. > > > From there on, I can just copy the most important files out without > > > having to decompress the entire thing. > > MC does decompress the file to $TMP/mc-[user]/ > > What follows might be wrong due to my poor undertanding of perl files > in /usr/share/mc/extfs/ but to the best of my undertanding: > > to browse .tar.{bz2,gz,z} files mc completely uncompresses them (tar > files do not have a "global index" in a fixed place). But not to browse > zip files: mc obtains the list without a "full decompression" and then > decompresses only individual files when same operation is performed on > them. So generally much less free space in /tmp/ is needed > Thanks for the investigation! If mc obtains the list without full decompression that is very good news. I will try it once I get my hand on that file. I am still trying to figure out a way to get it (trying to log in and maybe using ssh scp to copy it from his mac to my laptop). Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]