Andy Armstrong wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 


Yes, I believe this is the case. Unfortunately, in my experience 
(Mozilla) the file still gets saved with the .gz extension when it is in 
fact a tar file. That can be a little confusing. When gzip complains, I 
immediately suspect that the download screwed up :-)

Conor





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