Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:49:15 +0200 | | From | Spam <> | | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) |
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> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> Firstly, if I have to do it from a Gnome program, about the only >> program where looking in a tar file is visibly useful is Nautilus. >> Ironically, clicking on a tar file in Nautilus doesn't work, >> despite having a dependency on gnome-vfs2. :/
> Do you have file-roller installed?
> I can open tar/zip/rar/etc.. files from anywhere in gnome2, eg in > Galeon I can click on a tar.gz URL (http or whatever) and have it > open it in file-roller, from where i can browse the files to my > hearts content.
But can you actually do things with these files? Can you run applications or edit files directly, or is there need for temporary unzip first?
~S
> regards,
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