I guess I have an enchanted computer. On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote: > 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 > > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (95% of Full)
