From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Subject: Re: Any opinions of tar and gzip vs. pkzip? also any major problems in
         tar?
23 Jan 1997 18:47:17 -0800
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Hi, you wrote:

: pkzip and any other dos/windows packer can extract files without
: extracting the archive (e.g. the readme).

I guess gtar can, too, see below. Your wording confuses me a bit.
Extracting one or more files implies extracting from the archive, I think.

: tar/gzip are uncomfortable

I quite comfortably use (just tested on unix, should also work with cygwin)
 gtar xfzO b17.1/usersrc.tgz README|less
and before that, I usually figure out the contents with
 gtar tvvfz b17.1/usersrc.tgz|less

: and time consuming in this case.

Maybe if something is near the end of the archive, but I Ctrl/C if I'm sure
I have what I want.


Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
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