Hi!

| uservfs does
|
| cd foo.deb#uar
cd foo.deb/ar
| vs.
| cd foo.deb#udeb
cd foo.deb/deb

and why would you want that, instead of just:
cd foo.deb	# for the ar
dpkg -i foo.deb	# for the deb

Because I want to see contents of that .deb package, nicely parsed?

Just want to extract the tar file?  Maybe something like
cat foo.tgz/gunzip
In which case (of course) foo.tgz/gunzip has exactly the same directory
contents as foo.tgz

Yes, that would work.

In fact, for just about any syntax anyone could suggest, I can't really
see why you can't just replace all weird symbols with a slash and a
symbol.  Instead of
	foo.tgz#utar
you have
	foo.tgz/#/utar
Only difference is, some things which used to require special tools can
now be serviced by less than what's in busybox.

That would work, too. I do not get your comment about busybox.
								Pavel
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