Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 11 Aug 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > > "Greg" == Greg Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, > > Greg> well, gee, its

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-11 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
> "Greg" == Greg Strockbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, Greg> well, gee, its starting to sound like emacs :-) Just to make the note: emacs is

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/08/2000 (23:57) : > first make sure you lesspipe on your system run 'which lesspipe'. then > put "eval $(lesspipe)" in your .bash_profile or in the appropriate login > script for your shell. I found out (to my surprise) that /etc/profile is not read

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-06 Thread kmself
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 12:35:07AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > And that GNU Midnight Commander (aka mc > > aka gmc) had a similar functionality. This is a tool which, as I > > understand, was adapted from Novell's "Midnight Commander" file browsing > > utility.

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paul Seelig wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > And that GNU Midnight Commander (aka mc > > aka gmc) had a similar functionality. This is a tool which, as I > > understand, was adapted from Novell's "Midnight Commander" file browsing > > utility. > > > It escapes me why you seem to be

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-05 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
first make sure you lesspipe on your system run 'which lesspipe'. then put "eval $(lesspipe)" in your .bash_profile or in the appropriate login script for your shell. On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:19:05PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/08/2000 (03:58) : > > add this to

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-05 Thread Preben Randhol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/08/2000 (03:58) : > add this to /etc/profile: eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` , source it, > and then less whateveryouwant.deb. Cool, isn't it? Works with .rpm, > .tar.gz, .zip too. Doesn't work for me. Odd. -- Preben Randhol - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pvv.org/~r

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread benalb
Cuando: jue, 03 de ago de 2000, a las 10:51:54 -0700 Quien: kmself@ix.netcom.com Que: Cool trick: gmc and Debs > The cool hat trick: You can browse through the contents of a Deb > package *.deb file) with gmc as if it were a locally mounted fileystem, > without having to unarchive

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread David Reviejo
* Lehel Bernadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000804 21:30]: > > On 04-Aug-2000 Carl Fink wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gz

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 04-Aug-2000 Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > >> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped >> tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, >> and zip programs are all installed. > > Inter

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > The cool hat trick: You can browse through the contents of a Deb > package *.deb file) with gmc as if it were a locally mounted fileystem, > without having to unarchive and untar all the constituent components. See also the debview package: Description: Emacs mode

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, > and zip programs are all installed. Interestingly, though, it can't browse cpio archi

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Greg Strockbine.
> You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip, tar, well, gee, its starting to sound like emacs :-) greg s.

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Mike Werner
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Color me clueless, but I just found something way cool. I guess I > *should* have spent more time with Novell. > The cool hat trick: You can browse through the contents of a Deb > package *.deb file) with gmc as if it were a locally mounted fileystem, > without havi

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Russ Pitman
Well-- The oportunity to comment here is too good to pass. I believe that mc should also be known as LSAK ( Linux Swiss Army Knife). Been an addict for years and still don't know all its tricks-:)) On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:51:54PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Color me clueless, but I ju

Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread kmself
Color me clueless, but I just found something way cool. I guess I *should* have spent more time with Novell. Last night's SVLUG presentation featured a couple of guys from Eazel showing off a number of Nautalis features, including the ability to browse RPMs as if they were a mounted filesystem.