Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at > doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive! > > The file is about 12KB. > > http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el >
Ditto. Some of these dpkg docs are html; if you have w3, when you deb-view one of these docs you can 'w3-preview-this buffer' to display it right. It can't follow the links (hmm...that'd have to be pretty abstract) so view each file separately, if that's comfy for you. (Unsolicited deb-view ramble: I find it particularly valuable, since I used to 'dpkg -x' deb-files all the time to check stuff out, and often I was root. Cleaning up from that, I'd always 'rm -r usr/' in the unpacking workspace, and then gasp, realizing I'd been one character away from the apocalypse :-) Thanks again, Rick. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
