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 at 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
>
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