App idea

[Colossus]

On 3/23/06, Oblio <apa.chioara at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's what I was thinking - "dpkg -x" should do it.
> There is an alternative though - ar + tar-gzip/bzip2.

I tried ar -p archive.dev > archive.tar.bz2 but what I get is just data.
Can you share more light on the matter, so xarchiver can support also
.deb archives ?

Thank you,
Giuseppe
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