Thread: iPhone .deb applications onto N900?
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TA-t3 is offline TA-t3
2009-11-16 , 09:46
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#8
Actually it's a .a file (you can unpack the file with the 'ar' archiving utility), not .tar.
The analogy still holds as you describe, of course.

e.g.
$ ar -t x48_0.4.3_armel.deb
debian-binary
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
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