mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 20:14:52 UTC 2009


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Paul Marwick <paulm at waitrose.com> wrote:
> After a bit of a hunt, I found this in /etc/mc/mc.ext
>
> # .tar.lzma, .tlz
> regex/\.t(ar\.lzma|lz)$
>        Open=%cd %p#utar
>        View=%view{ascii} lzma -dc %f 2>/dev/null | tar tvvf -
>
> :) I'm not exactly expert on mc regex, but I can't see what the problem is.
> I also tried renaming a .tlz to .tar.lzma. After doing this, no problem
> opening it, and no problems with mc not recognizing it as a compressed tar
> file.
>
> Can anyone see what the problem is? Anyone reproduce the problem?
>
> :) Even better, any suggestions as to a fix that works?


Do you have the program "lzma" on your system? (I think lzma is
probably a symlink to xz nowdays)



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