Re: [TCLUG:15263] Reading Red Hat rpms

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:15263] Reading Red Hat rpms
From: Clay Fandre <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:51:25 -0600
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Jackie Santopietro wrote:
> 
> Hi we are trying to read Red Hat source rpms and when we look at them in
> windows notepad etc they are mostly unreadable.  I am wondering what can be
> used to read them whether it be on linux, unix or windows.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

RPM's (even the source ones) are NOT text files. Why would you want to
read them in notepad anyway??? You need to install them (or rebuild)
them on a Linux system. RPM's are in cpio format and compressed. Does
anyone know if there is a version of RPM for Windows?

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