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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:34:14AM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 
> > Doug has posted pdftotext and pdfimages in a zip file for me to try.  When
> > I mentioned that I don't know how to use a zip file with linux he put
> > together a static version of a linux unzip program.  Then also pdfimage.
> > He said to ask foolabs if it is okay to post just the console programs
> > from xpdf, with documentation and a pointer to the website.  I have not
> > heard back from foolabs.  If I hear back, and if all these programs work,
> > we are welcome to post them (as a .tgz package) at Steve's basiclinux
> > site.   I don't have time to test the programs until this weekend so I
> > asked if it is okay for other basiclinux users to test them.  I will post
> > the URLs if it is okay.
> >
> I would be delighted to try them - especially pdftotext.  I've been
> waiting for a URL from which the program(s) could be downloaded for some
> time now.  Btw: one quick and easy way to handle .zip (and tar.gz and
> possibly other compressed formats) is to use a version of MC (midnight
> commander) that has support for decompressing enabled.  Probably the

MC is actually using an external program to do the uncompression. That
external program is unzip. Similar, MC is also using external programs
to undo gzip, tar, bz, rpm and deb files.

> Slack71 package has this capability: not sure about the mini-mc available
> from JP.  In any case, with such a version of MC, you only need to
> navigate to the file in question, highlight it and hit "enter."  The file
> is then shown its uncompressed form (often as a directory containing
> files and subdirectories) and it can be copied from there to some other
> folder (e.g., /home/user) in its uncompressed form.
> 
> James
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