On Sat, 26 May 2012, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Or, it should get clever and not unpack everything. There are plenty of > > software that are able to read into archives without extracting from > > them. > You can't do it for a .tar.gz or a .tar.bz and they are the most common kind > of archive.
Yes, you can. But it is slow (requires one full pass to get the file catalog, and another to decompress file data), so you would do it only when you expect it to be better than the alternative. Still, if mc will obey $TMPDIR, it is not at fault. Does it? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120527140401.gc29...@khazad-dum.debian.net
