--- Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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