* J.Francois (frenchie@magusnet.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:03:38AM -0700, Gontran wrote:
> [snipped] 
> > Depending on what you mean by 'inspect', on most RH based distros (and maybe
> > others) one can 'less' a tar archive and see a list of files contained there.
> > Maybe with RPMs too. I haven't looked to see if that's a feature of less or
> > some distro/gnu\/linux specific thing.
> 
> You must mean:
> tar tvfz FILENAME(.tgz || .tar.gz || .tgZ || .tar.Z )
> tar tvf FILENAME.tar
> tar tvf[z] /dev/[tapedevice]
> which will all list contents of a tar file.
>  
Yes, of course -- if you want to do it so you understand it.  Not me mister!
Due dilligence has me investigating now: the enviroment
variable 'LESSOPEN' is utilized by 'less' and in my base distro is set
to '| lesspipe.sh %s' where the contents are naturally similar to some of what
you've posted above.

> > Speaking of BSD... Did I hear mention that there is a local BSD users group?
> 
> If there isn't one we need to start one soon.
> I have been migrating my Linux systems at home and at work
> to FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE ( keeping 2.9 on CDROM for Firewalls )
> and would be interested in talking to other people 
> about their *BSD experiences.
> 

I'm interested.  Suppose a listserve would be nice ... My hobbie-ist dream 
as of last night( thanks to Bob George's intro and invite to OpenWISP)
is to have some IPv6 VPNs running on/inbetween *BSDs and Linux on the OpenWISP
network. 

Gontran
Time!?Time!?