On 12.08.01, 17:06:58, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>
> > But the resulting pdb file itself isn't all that usable, for my
> > purposes. But at least I know how it works, now.
>
> This is definately not how it works. Firstly, the file is a tar
> file ([t]ape [ar]chive) and then compressed with gzip. The file should be:
>
> MyFile.tar.gz, and inside there, you will find MyFile.pdb, which is
> the result of converting MyFile.pdf to MyFile.pdb. There is no zip file
> involved here (as in with a .zip extension) and there is definately not a
> file within a file within a file.
>
> MyFile.tar.gz -> MyFile.pdb, that's it.
That's probably due to the way Winzip handles tar.gz archives. It
first unpacks the gzip compression, and shows the .tar archive to be
the file inside. I suppose recent winzip versions can then extract a
.tar archive, even if it's called "*.zip".
regards,
--
Bernd Sieker
NetBSD: Rock solid!
-- Lars-Johan Liman
P. S.
(And to be nitpicking again, it's really spelled "definitely",
although hardly anyone seems to get it right. Do Americans really
pronounce it as if it were spelled with an "a"?)
(This has long been my favourite "misspelled-by-native-speakers"
word, closely followed by "their" vs. "there" and "you're" vs. "your")
