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RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
- To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>, "'gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de'" <gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de>, Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:49:12 -0800 (PST)
--- Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com> wrote:
> Why not switch to the quite common ".tgz" suffix instead of .tar.gz" and
> replace dots in release numbers by underscores? this could be done almost
> unambiguously (at least as long as package names do not contain '-'):
>
Yuck!! Not worth it.
>
> Thus all favorite download tools will be happy with th efiles to download
> (and we even can look at the content of it with winzip... I know there is
> problems with using winzip to install, although I don't know which ones, but
> looking at the archive content should be OK).
>
`tar -ztf foo.tar.gz | less' will list the contents of the archive and allow
you to page back and forth. What more could you ask for?
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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