mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

[Theodore Kilgore]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, /dev/rob0 wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 15:16:57 Theodore Kilgore wrote:
>> Does anyone happen to know if similar procedures will open a
>> Slackware .txz file or not?
>
> Slackware 13's mc works fine with .txz packages.
>
>> Sorry, this is on my list of things to look into, but I am also
>> rather busy trying to hold my end up over here and I simply have
>> not had time to do much in that direction.
>
> I found it rather simple to upgrade everything on a 12.2 system using
> the 13.0 Slackbuild scripts. pkgtools itself can be upgradepkg'ed
> on older systems, but you also need xz.
>
> Oh, now that I think of it, I recall that I just installpkg'ed the
> slackware64 xz package on my slamd64-12.2 system. I didn't try that
> with mc; right now I just ssh to a 13.0 host if I want to look inside
> any txz/tlz packages. :)
> --

I am running Slackware-current right now, as I said. And the mc package 
which is installed is mc-20090714_git-i486-1.txz, dated July 14. It will 
_not_ open a txz file out of the box. So, are you saying it can be thus 
configured in the extension file?

Theodore Kilgore