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Re: AW: documentation archive
further to this,
I have seen the following issues with browsers downloading tar.gz files:
* Sometimes they come down in text mode. Urggh. I don't know why and have
never seen it replicated.
* In IE if you download a .tar.gz file as anything other than "all files" in
the save as dialog, IE ungzip's it. This is due AFAICT to a broken
Content-Encoding implementation.
* occasionally name mangling can occur.
The only one that I know happens, and happens frequently is the IE save as.
As IE doesn't understand bzip2 (AFAIK) using bzip2 may also make browser
downloads more robust....
Unfortunately I cannot volunteer to tackle the setup changes :[
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:12:13PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
> >To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 AM
> >Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
> >
> >
> ><snip>
> >> >That's it and these are the reasons for suggesting not to use WinZip
> >> >for unpacking. Especially newbies will not be able to figure what's
> >> >gone wrong.
> >>
> >> I wonder if we can add a bit to our version of tar to make it produce
> >> files that are unextractable using winzip.
> >>
> >> cgf
> >>
> >I don't believe winzip understands bzip2.
> >.tar.bz2 might work
>
> Hey, good idea! I've been wanting to adapt setup.exe to use bz2 files.
> This is YA reason for doing this.
>
> cgf
>
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