Re: mc 4.7.0pre3 support for .tlz archives

[Theodore Kilgore <kilgota banach math auburn edu>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Paul Marwick 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?
>
> paul.

This is a slightly different question, but along the same lines.

Does anyone happen to know if similar procedures will open a Slackware 
.txz file or not?

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.

Theodore Kilgore