Re: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-09 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > alien -t filename.rpm is the correct way. correct. to clarify a little: .tgz and .tar.gz are functionally the same kind of file on GNUish unix systems--in practice they behave the exact same. For example, 'gunzip foo.tgz' will uncompress the file f

Re: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alien -t filename.rpm is the correct way. nate On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: mcrobe >hi mcrobe > mcrobe >Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. mcrobe >The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest mcrobe >thing listed i

RE: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
math" -Original Message- From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:15 AM To: Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: Alien to .tar.gz Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. &g

Re: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Mike Werner
Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz == .tar.gz -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He tha

Re: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:10:47AM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz and

Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B