slloyd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to figure out a way to expand a HPUX .depot file on my windows box. Any ideas? I searched cpan but did not really find anything.

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Re: Expanding HPUX .depot files on a windows box?
by davis (Vicar) on Nov 09, 2005 at 18:46 UTC
    HP-UX .depot files are in fact glorified tar files. You could use Archive::Tar files if you really wanted to look inside them. I've got to ask though: why would you want to do this? -- those files are almost always useful only to HP-UX systems.

    davis
    Kids, you tried your hardest, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try.
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        In that case, if you've got access to an HP-UX box, 
        swlist -l file -s $PWD/filename.depot

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        is The Right Way.

        davis
        Kids, you tried your hardest, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try.
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[d/l]
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Re: Expanding HPUX .depot files on a windows box?
by mikeock (Hermit) on Nov 09, 2005 at 17:55 UTC
    What do the links have to do with your question?
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        No No. Now that the line is there it makes sense. I was jsut thinking what the hell?
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