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RE: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file


From: klaus.berndl
Subject: RE: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:47:54 +0200

Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE wrote:
> Am 27.06.2005 um 13:11 schrieb Klaus Berndl:
> 
>> Hmm, i forgot to mention that i want it do without external programs
>> like tar and gz!
>> 
> 
> I don't believe this could work. GNU Emacs needs external programmes
> like bzip2, gunzip, etc. to unpack the contents from a compressed
> file. 
> 
> You can proof that yourself: rename the decompressors and try to open
> a compressed tar file!

Hmm, yes, indeed, seems to be right... The emulation of tar in tar-mode.el
leads me to the (wrong) assumption that this is also possible for *.gz files....
Appaerently a wrong assumption ;-)

Ciao,
Klaus




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