From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:36:09 +0200 Message-ID: <3fcb22c7b57b2fef92f6f6a04bf4d2f0@Web.DE> References: <87d5q6c2w9.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119952942 3324 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 10:02:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 12:02:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnCuM-0001rX-2D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:01:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnD2A-0001OW-Nr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnCtw-0007VA-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnCts-0007UJ-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnCqY-0006IY-0y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.224] (helo=smtp06.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DnCaU-0002p6-5Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.245.189.81] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.105 #297) id 1DnCW3-00028n-00; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:36:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87d5q6c2w9.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> Original-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27693 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27693 Am 28.06.2005 um 10:16 schrieb Tim X: > But doesn't emacs tar-mode just use tar 'under the hood'? > No. AFAIK Jamie Zawinsky wrote a native 'interpreter' for Tape ARchive=20= files. It scans the structures, sees when a file or directory starts=20 and ends, sees times and permissions ... There is no such mechanism to un-compress (LHarc, arc, zip, gzip, UNIX=20= compress, bzip2, Windows RAR and CABinet and PKzip, Mac OS Stuff and=20 much older stuff, ...) -- Greetings Pete =93One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and dumb=20 movies alone=94 (Amiri Baraka 1999)