Re: [galaxy-dev] Outputting zip files from galaxy

2011-11-10 Thread wfmartin
Hi Nate: Thanks for your response. The zip command always creates files with the extension. Utilities that validate, examine, or extract from zip files expect the file to have a .zip extension. I can understand why it was easier to architect Galaxy with a simple, uniform file naming scheme.

[galaxy-dev] Outputting zip files from galaxy

2011-11-09 Thread wfmartin
I have an application that needs to return a zip file. I attempted to follow the instructions to add a zip datatype, with no success. It appears to me that Galaxy insists on generating the output file name and I can't get it to generate one with a .zip extension. The documentation on the wiki