Kain is right. The correct switches are xO. As was mentioned in my message, I was trying to follow the packaging tutorial, which says that
<start quotation> To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/doc/\*copyright | less <end quotation> As far as I checked it still has the wrong entry (see www.debian.org/doc/pacaking-manuals/packaging.html/ch-binarypkg.html, just before section 2.2). > On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:29:59AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > > > * "shaul" == shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > shaul> tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or > > directory > I missed this in the shaul's message at first, and nuked the orig. message, > so I don't have the context. Sorry. > > Actually, the problem that he has here is that "xof" were the options > specified on his commandline. In effect, he was trying to extract a V7 tar > archive from the file usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright. If this filespec is > present on the system, I doubt that it's a tarfile. :) > > You'll probably get better results using xO and then the filename in the tar > archive for the copyright file. (This is, of course, presuming that your tar > is compiled with stdin/stdout as the default device.) > > -- > Bryon Roche, Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
