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From: g93l4935@cs.ru.ac.za (Robin Lunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unix/FreeBSD versions of DOS utilities
Date: 12 May 1995 07:27:54 GMT
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Kevet Duncombe (dunc@netcom.com) wrote:
: Da_worm@cris.com (DAWORM) wrote:
: On 7 May 1995 23:43:17 GMT, you wrote:
: >RIR - Actually, ls handles 90% of RIR, but the one thing RIR does is
: >allow you to see the contents of archived files. It shows the archive
: >name, then indents the contents.
: I don't know of anything that does this, but it might not be too hard
: to write a shell script that identifies the archive type from the
: extension or by using the file command, then calls the appropriate
: archiver to list the contents.
I have a friend who is writing such a thing at the moment. He's got it
working for DOS but just needs a bit of nudging to get him to do the port
soon.
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