Well-- The oportunity to comment here is too good to pass. I believe that mc should also be known as LSAK ( Linux Swiss Army Knife). Been an addict for years and still don't know all its tricks-:))
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:51:54PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Color me clueless, but I just found something way cool. I guess I > *should* have spent more time with Novell. > > Last night's SVLUG presentation featured a couple of guys from Eazel > showing off a number of Nautalis features, including the ability to > browse RPMs as if they were a mounted filesystem. Pretty slick. > Talking to folks, I understood that this was supported through the GVFS > -- Gnome Virtual Filesystem. And that GNU Midnight Commander (aka mc > aka gmc) had a similar functionality. This is a tool which, as I > understand, was adapted from Novell's "Midnight Commander" file browsing > utility. It's a file manager on steroids, as a console tool. > > My question to the Eazel folks was whether or not Deb browsing was also > supported. > > The cool hat trick: You can browse through the contents of a Deb > package *.deb file) with gmc as if it were a locally mounted fileystem, > without having to unarchive and untar all the constituent components. > > This is pretty damned sweet. Thought I'd share. > > If you already knew this, laugh at me. If you didn't -- well, now you > do. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 --
