Actually, Winzip (since 6.x anyway) can handle the format fine. It takes a couple passes, though, and I've had problems sometimes with Linux trying to read the results, but if the objective is just to unwrap a package to see what's in there it will work...
> ---------- > From: Shaleh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 9:53 AM > To: Ralf G. R. Bergs > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Extract DEB files under Windoze (was Re: Entpacken von > Datei > > > He would like to know whether he can also extract DEB files under > Windoze, > > possibly from within a graphical (GUI) program. > > If Winzip handles ar packed files, then it can be used. a deb is an ar > package > containing two tar.gz files. Winzip does handle tar.gz fine. So worst > case is > he ar extracts the tar.gz in linux and then looks at the tar.gz in > Windows. >
