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- From: 754clifton@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: tar/zip mode?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.162047.5013@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:20:47 EST
- References: <1992Aug19.004058.18149@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <1992Aug19.004058.18149@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) writes:
- > Greetings.
- >
- > Has anyone written a GNU emacs interface to either the zip or the tar
- > archive utilities? I've been thinking of trying to write something
- > that is a cross between dired mode and crypt.el to make it easier to
- > manipulate archives without manually unpacking them. I've already
- > checked the Elisp directory, but didn't find anything obviously
- > relevant. Any leads would be appreciated.
- >
- > David M. Jones "Trifles! Trifles light as air!"
- > dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu -- the Hystricide
- >
-
- There are two packages available that I know of:
-
- archive.el (archive-mode) works with zoo, zip, lzh, arc, and tar files.
- tar-mode.el (tar-mode) works with tar files.
-
- I hacked archive to work with only zoo, zip and lzh files and left tar files
- to tar mode. BTW, w/ auto-uncompress you can visit tar.Z files and get a nice
- dired listing of all the files in the tape-archive.
-
- /Doug
- --
- Douglas Clifton [99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu]
-