On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I heavily use mc to enter a deb package. Then I can even examine the
> > contents of the files inside without the need of dpkg --extract. It is
> > pretty neat.
>
> How do you do this? My mc (3.5.17, from Debian 1.3.1) doesn't seem to
> support .deb packages by default, and neither the .ar files that they
> really are (just .tar files).
IIRC you add this snippet to /etc/mc/mc.ext
regex/\.deb$
Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
Better yet is to get an unofficial later version. Try
ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/unofficial/binaries
for mc_4.1.11-0.1_i386.deb. (I do not know yet whether it is libc5 or
libc6.)
Lindsay
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