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
On Nov 9, 2011, at 5:21 PM, wfmartin wrote:
> 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