App idea

[Jani Monoses]

Colossus wrote:
> 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 ?

this is the online manpage deb(5)

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/cgi-bin/man2html?deb+5

Jani