Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:59:39 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar Message-ID: <20081216105710.O59100@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081216041014.52b54151.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20081215200949.GA48169@thought.org> <20081215222314.GA61777@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20081216021626.GB64553@thought.org> <20081216041014.52b54151.freebsd@edvax.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> To get such content from a DVD, you would just > > % tar xf /dev/dvd > > But I think this is only possible with UNIX (BSD, Linux, Solaris). > "Windows" cannot handle this, of course. you may create small .iso image that consist of some stupid images, readme or autorun configured to format c: ;), then strip first 512 bytes of it with dd if=winiso.iso bs=512 skip=1 of=tmp;mv tmp winiso.iso THEN tar Your files as you said, but put winiso.iso first :) this way - unix user using tar will extract what's needed (just have to delete winiso.iso after), windoze user will see what you wanted in winiso.iso
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20081216105710.O59100>