App idea

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----- Original Message -----
From: Colossus <colossus73 at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:21 pm
Subject: Re: App idea
> 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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Wasn't .deb a .tar.gz file?