extracting from debian package?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I downloaded a debian package, which must contain some text files I want
> to look at. I don't have a debian system, and I don't care for the
> binaries, only text files.
>
> $ file runit-services_0.2.3_all.deb
> runit-services_0.2.3_all.deb: Debian binary package (format 2.0)
>
> Is there any way at all to achieve this?

alien?

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