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Re: AW: documentation archive
- To: "Vladimir G Ivanovic" <vladimir at acm dot org>
- Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
- From: "Andreas Eibach" <a dot eibach at gmx dot net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:36:59 +0100
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <200012201918.LAA29435@prosper.leonora.org>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir G Ivanovic" <vladimir@acm.org>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: <klaus.berndl@sdm.de>; <merlin_electronic@t-online.de>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
> I use Netscape almost exclusively to download files, without problems.
> Sometimes Netscape will automagically decompress the file, but not
> rename it. So all applications that key off of the file name extension
> will be confused. It's a simple matter to rename the file to end in
> ".tar".
Ah, you MUST be NT users. :)
IIRC, this is a NT-only problem. I never had this behaviour with a Win9x
machine, honestly, *never*.
However, my machine at work is a NT 4 SP 5 (?) one, so I always get ...
_tar.tar files instead of tar.gz. This is *very annoying*.. :-/
I do NOT have W2k yet, so I dunno if this is fixed in W2k. I hope it is, but
I bet it's not.
Andreas