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Re: Rethinking UPMs package format



Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@ctv.es> writes:

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> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> > But "ar" archives are ASCII files. You can print them. [ ... ]

> ?

> Please, do "cat the-debian-package-of-your-choice.deb"
> and tell me what you see. I would not call this "an ASCII file".

Do "less the-debian-package-of-your-choice.deb"

If you look carefully, you will see that it is ASCII.  The only parts
that aren't ASCII are the .tar.gz files that are contained in the
archive... The meta-information is ASCII.  If you only stored ASCII
files in the archive, the entire archive would be ASCII.


Steve
dunham@gdl.msu.edu










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