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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:21:44 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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Hi!

> | uservfs does
> |
> | cd foo.deb#uar
> cd foo.deb/ar
> | vs.
> | cd foo.deb#udeb
> cd foo.deb/deb
> 
> and why would you want that, instead of just:
> cd foo.deb	# for the ar
> dpkg -i foo.deb	# for the deb

Because I want to see contents of that .deb package, nicely parsed?

> Just want to extract the tar file?  Maybe something like
> cat foo.tgz/gunzip
> In which case (of course) foo.tgz/gunzip has exactly the same directory
> contents as foo.tgz

Yes, that would work.

> In fact, for just about any syntax anyone could suggest, I can't really
> see why you can't just replace all weird symbols with a slash and a
> symbol.  Instead of
> 	foo.tgz#utar
> you have
> 	foo.tgz/#/utar
> Only difference is, some things which used to require special tools can
> now be serviced by less than what's in busybox.

That would work, too. I do not get your comment about busybox.
								Pavel
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