Re: [gentoo-user] Re: realplayer download security problem

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:14:20 +0100
Holly Bostick wrote:

> You can also do this (look inside an RPM) with:
> 
> -Krusader (KDE file manager)
> -KFM (Konqueror; at least I could under SuSE, and while you of course
> don't get the SuSE-added patch functionality of being able to "Install
> (the RPM) with YAST" directly from Konq, I believe the ability to open
> the archive is native to Konq)
> - Any GUI archive program (file-roller, KArchiver, etc).

Didn't know that, thanks (although its not a task I perform very often
now thanks to gentoo)

> 
> Simplistically speaking, an RPM is just another kind of archive, so most any
> application that can look inside archives (transparently or dedicated)
> can do this, for those of you who are not big terminal geeks. But even
> if you're not a big term geek, mc has a lot to recommend it (especially
> if you don't happen to have X available), and this is one of the
> abilities that makes mc worth remembering and encourages one to use a
> terminal every once in a while (or more often-- more cli applications
> than one might imagine are extraordinarily functional, and that high
> function makes them cooler than one might expect).

 IMHO mc is the killer command line app :-)

people may not know that it also has built in abilities to mount
filesystems over a network (smb, fish/ssh, ftp).

There is heaps of coolness in there. 

-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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