Tar question...
Zscoundrel
Zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Thu Oct 16 18:37:31 CDT 2003
Nautilus on RH 9.0 works kind of like this. It doesn't actually mount
it as a file system, but I can browse a tar or archive file like a file
system.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
>On Tuesday 14 October 2003 5:03 am, david nicol wrote:
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>>I've often thought that a tool that mounts a tar archive like
>>a file system would be very useful, if it existed it would work for
>>this purpose.
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>MC (Midnight Commander) will indeed do so, as will Konqueror (visual file
>browser in KDE). Pretty sure most of the modern file browsers do so. I'm
>starting to keep some of my doc files in compressed format.
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