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Qchem
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Hi all,

 

I'm looking for a piece of software that would enable me to descend into archives (usually tar.gz or tr.bz2) via the command line. I guess it would need to unpack the archive into a buffer, then let me play around with the results - at least being able to view them in emacs etc - best of all it would do this transparently (so once your inside the archive it behaves like a normal shell session). I know midnight commander does something similar but I want to avoid doing it within a file manager (I don't like file managers!!) if possible.

 

I tried googling for this but seeing as though I didn't really know how to describe it I got nowhere.

 

Have any of you good people ever come across anything like this??

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