By "inspect" I mean view, copy, traverse - anything you can do with
a CD-ROM.

George


Gontran wrote:
> 
> * George Toft (george@georgetoft.com) wrote:
> > "Autolocating" is a feature of any tarball that was created with
> > absolute paths, and is usually considered "a bad thing" as you can't
> > untar it to inspect the contents very easy.  Even without absolute
> > paths,
> > untarring any tarball in the / directory will "relocate" stuff for you.
> >
> > George
> >
> 
> 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.
> 
> Speaking of BSD... Did I hear mention that there is a local BSD users group?
> 
> Gontran
> >
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > [ hooking up bash for Mac OSX ]
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