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

[Klaus Berndl]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > Is it possible with tar-mode (or other already existing elisp-code), to
> > extract the full contents of a tar-file to a certain directory (or at
> > least to default-directory)?
>  
>  The gunzipping needs to be done by an external program, but the untarring
>  can be performed by Emacs itself.  See install.el for an example of how you
>  can do that using tar-untar-buffer.  It's pretty untested code, tho.

Thanks for the hint - where can i get install.el??

Ciao,
Klaus

>  
>  
>          Stefan

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