From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com([65.9.87.151]) (2441 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:42:22 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (frankiec@localhost) by c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com (8.10.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f27LgOR05661 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:42:24 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com: frankiec owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:42:24 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Carmickle X-Sender: frankiec@c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com Reply-To: frankiec@braille.uwo.ca To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: tar archives. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi chuck and all Well I don't have a clue about what you guys are talking about. Such things as less or cat should show you the compressed infomation which is very much a binary. Chuck sent me his version of less and it works just the way I thought just like mine did. I can understand zcat and zless showing you the tar archive one file at a time like it does. It however certainly doesn't give me a file listing. Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec@dryrose.com On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Hi Frankie - > > My less shows me a directory listing of .tgz files resembling the ones > produced by "ls -l". I just type "less filename.tgz" and there it is. I > compared that with the "tar -xtf filename.tgz" method, and found that all > the same files were shown, except the latter method shows only the names - > not permissions, ownership, etcetera. My less reports 354 as a version > number. I did nothing special here to make it happen (at least not on > purpose!) > > Chuck > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > > Hi Chuck > > How do you get less to view what's in a tarball? If you use zless maybe > > you could see that with out using other means but less doesn't know how to > > gunzip. > > > > Frank Carmickle > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >