Rodney M Dyer wrote:
In the original thread on the web page I commented that clicking on the "openafs-1.3.85-src.tar.bz2" actually causes the IE browser to download it as "openafs-1.3.85-src.tar.tar". This is strange, but even more strange is the fact that I can't do anything with the resulting file like I was able to in the past.
I've seen this before on other web sites. I think that OpenAFS.org's web site reports the MIME type of a .bz2 file to be application/x-tar or something like that. IE renames the file based on that MIME type. Netscape 7 on Windows sometimes does this, too.
I Google'd and found this http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=BZ2 about ".bz2". WinZip doesn't understand this file type so it didn't install a MIME Type info into Windows. I suppose I can install WinRAR personally, but our group doesn't own a license for it.
You may want to try 7-Zip. http://www.7-zip.org/ Supposedly pretty good, although I've never tried it.
Did OpenAFS.org need to change the compress type from "gz" to "bz2" for some reason? I would rather see the most common compressed type that all uncompressors can use. Does OpenAFS.org need a license to use ZIP?
Bzip2 has a much better compression ration than gzip, and is fairly common on UNIX-like systems. Pretty much all Linux & *BSD systems include it by default, and so does Solaris.
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