>>Winzip should be able to take it from there.
> > >>If not, is there any other way I can browse the documentation
> (/usr/doc,
> > .>>/usr/man, /usr/info) for debian while not actually at a PC with
> debian
> >>> running? Is it available on the web?
>
>>hmm well... with dwww the
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> I guess your home PC can't be acessed from work (ie having it online)
> too bad...I need to set mine up (one of these days) to let me tell it
> to conenct remotely.
xringd is your friend.
Just remember that if you have a dynamic IP you need a way to locate your
machi
Eric,
Are all of .deb files ar archives?I recall having tried to unpack some.deb
files with ar, and that didn't work.
Whether they are all ar files, what were they before they were archive
files?
--David
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> >
> > My question is, basically, can I
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote:
> I am trying to get to grips with Debian, and I'd like to browse through
> the documentation. The problem I have is that my Debian PC is at one
> home, whereas the PC where I have the most chance to read documentation,
> print things out
>From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can
>> I get at the tar so that I can unpack it (I have Windows gzip, tar, etc
>> utilities).
>
>deb(5) documents the format. Basically, it's an ar(1) archive containing
>tar.
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote:
> My question is, basically, can I extract files from .deb format packages
> on a Windows box?
Probably, though I don't know how much work is involved.
> Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of tar/cpio archive - can
> I get
>
> My question is, basically, can I extract files from .deb format packages
> on a Windows box? Presumably, .deb files are internally some form of
> tar/cpio archive - can I get at the tar so that I can unpack it (I have
> Windows gzip, tar, etc utilities).
>
deb files are `ar' archives, they c
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