mc is not a part of the standard Solaris 7 (or earlier) install,
however, sunfreeware.com has it (in solaris package format) and I use 
it on my SPARC box.

George


"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 09. Oct, 2001 schwätzte Armand so:
> 
> > "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com> writes:
> >
> > > Can RPMs be opened with common *NIX tools as well?
> 
> > Yes, and individual files can be extracted with Midnight Commander.
> 
> mc is hardly a common *NIX tool. Doubt you'll find it in a default Solaris
> or IRIX install.
> 
> Didn't know mc could open them, though. Hell, didn't even remember mc is a
> file manager until this thread :).[1]
> 
> Granted, I'm not certain ar would be on them anymore either :). Also, it
> wasn't like I had a whole hell of a lot of luck with ar back when I first
> started using debian and tried to do some stuff by hand.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
> 
> [1] bash: the file manager of champions ;-)
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