From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Berndl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file Date: 28 Jun 2005 10:39:48 +0200 Organization: "sd&m AG, Muenchen, Germany" Message-ID: References: <87ekan7xxw.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119950531 28088 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 09:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 11:22:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnCH5-0004ax-RX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:21:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnCOu-0007GY-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:29:04 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsoutpeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsinpeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.sdm.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sachrang.muc.sdm.de Original-X-Trace: news.sdm.de 1119947988 2749 193.102.181.204 (28 Jun 2005 08:39:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.sdm.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:39:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132216 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27691 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27691 On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Is it possible with tar-mode (or other already existing elisp-code), to > > extract the full contents of a tar-file to a certain directory (or at > > least to default-directory)? > > The gunzipping needs to be done by an external program, but the untarring > can be performed by Emacs itself. See install.el for an example of how you > can do that using tar-untar-buffer. It's pretty untested code, tho. Thanks for the hint - where can i get install.el?? Ciao, Klaus > > > Stefan -- Klaus Berndl mailto: klaus.berndl@sdm.de sd&m AG http://www.sdm.de software design & management Carl-Wery-Str. 42, 81739 Muenchen, Germany Tel +49 89 63812-392, Fax -220