On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 06:11:35PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > (I didn't know > until about a month ago that .deb files were just 'ar' archives -- where is > this documented?) > See deb(5).
Or, for that matter, try `file *.deb': ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ file cruft_0.9.1_i386.deb ] cruft_0.9.1_i386.deb: current ar archive (Oh, and the nice thing about having an ar of two tar's rather than a tar with some extra stuff tacked on the end is that you can get to *all* the information in the former with standard tools, whereas the latter requires you to whip out the ol' C compiler if you don't have the appropriate packager handy) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``It's not a vision, or a fear. It's just a thought.'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
