"Andrew C. Oliver" wrote: > > Sorry if this has been answered, I've not run across the answer. I've > noticed a couple of projects' recent binary builds are named X.tar.gz > but are actually just straight tar files. Its a bit unwise IMO to name > tar files .tar.gz if they're not gzipped because dimwits like me type > "tar xvzf" on them and then tar or gzip tells them its corrupt and they > download it again before realizing its just not gzipped (or assume the > build is just corrupt).
Is this perhaps because the server they're on is sending them using gzip encoding which means that the browser expands them as it downloads. Apache does that. If you have index.html.gz for example it'll be served compressed and expanded by the browser. -- Andy Armstrong, Tagish -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
