Tony Firshman wrote:
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 at 20:15:17, Lau wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
The file marked 'tar/gzip (395k)' is called m.gz by my MSIE (6.0)I'll wait to see which (if any) of them work for you all.
Winzip likes both tar and gzip, but cannot understand .gz file. It wants to know the extension of the enclosed file! ... or the tz2 file. I haven't got to my QL yet, but I suspect gzip will be the one.
Doooerrr... I haven't got a .gz file. I think you mean .tgz where it's a gzip'ed tar archive. My WinZip asks if it should unpack to single file (the tar) to a temporary file and then open it. Have you got an ancient WinZip?
and my winzip is 8.1
Winzip says:
"please enter the full name of the file contained within the archive m.gz. For example, if the contents is a DOC file, a recommended filename is m.DOC"
Clearly an impossible question to answer - 'catch 23'?
Very strange. I've looked closely, and I haven't found any trace of an m.gz file. The one linked to as "tar/gzip (395K)" (should read 394K) is m.tgz, even when I use MSIE. To be silly, I downloaded it and threw it at my WinZip 8.1, which just said "Archive contains one file: m.tar Should WinZip decompress it to a temporary folder and open it?" (me being very precise).
I don't understand the last part of your comment. There's no catch. I know that WinZip occasionally comes up with that question. It is possible to zip a file using stdin->stdout, when the archive just doesn't have a name for the contained file. You have to make an intelligent guess at what the file extension should be, or just don't give one. Linux is quite clever at taking a file and working out what the file really is. It has a bunch of rules for working it out.
Back to the m.tz2 file - indeed, WinZip doesn't seem to know about bzip2. Even Linux doesn't seem to be fully au fait with it, although the kernel does gets compressed with it. It is a moderately recent development, but not that recent. I just did a "bzip2 --version" and the copyright starts in 1996. It also happens to report itself with the huge version number "1.0.2". That has to count as a well stable initial release, I suspect.
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