Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Andre Poenitz schrieb: [I would suggest generally using 'wget' for downloads from the net. Should be available for Windows, too.] Apart from that, you have plenty hints that the archive is indeed corrupted. As all others who tried the archive did not mention problems, so a new download,

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Andre Poenitz schrieb: [I would suggest generally using 'wget' for downloads from the net. Should be available for Windows, too.] Apart from that, you have plenty hints that the archive is indeed corrupted. As all others who tried the archive did not mention problems, so a new download,

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-04 Thread Juergen Fenn
Andre Poenitz schrieb: > [I would suggest generally using 'wget' for downloads from the net. Should > be available for Windows, too.] > > Apart from that, you have plenty hints that the archive is indeed > corrupted. As all others who tried the archive did not mention problems, > so a new

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Could it be that the problem is due to the fact that I made the download working with Windows? My box has a winmodem only. So I have no access to Maybe, or your browser. At least Netscape tends to corrupt files. Try using file LyXTips.tgz it might

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:55:58PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: I just would like to say that this is the first archive ever I am not able to open. I have never had any difficulties working with archives. Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp clients start in

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:04:07PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good performing

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Mike Meredith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 02 December 2001 17:55, you wrote: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data—format violated tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler Sounds like something has already decompressed the file

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only reward he gets for making his private

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only reward he gets for making his private

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only reward he gets for making his private

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Herbert Voss
only one remark: if you are able to get it with wget than try wget http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.tgz anyway, there is also a zip version http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip let me know if you want to use it more often, than I'll update it together with the tgz version. Herbert --

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Herbert Voss schrieb: anyway, there is also a zip version http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip This worked just fine! :-) Thank you very much, Herbert! let me know if you want to use it more often, than I'll update it together with the tgz version. That would be a good idea. Maybe you

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:59:21PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp clients start in ASCII mode as default, so archives thend to break... This idea has been mentioned rather often, in some personal messages too. I have

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Could it be that the problem is due to the fact that I made the download working with Windows? My box has a winmodem only. So I have no access to Maybe, or your browser. At least Netscape tends to corrupt files. Try using file LyXTips.tgz it might

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:55:58PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: I just would like to say that this is the first archive ever I am not able to open. I have never had any difficulties working with archives. Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp clients start in

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:04:07PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good performing

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Mike Meredith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 02 December 2001 17:55, you wrote: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data—format violated tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler Sounds like something has already decompressed the file

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only reward he gets for making his private

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only reward he gets for making his private

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only reward he gets for making his private

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Herbert Voss
only one remark: if you are able to get it with wget than try wget http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.tgz anyway, there is also a zip version http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip let me know if you want to use it more often, than I'll update it together with the tgz version. Herbert --

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Herbert Voss schrieb: anyway, there is also a zip version http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip This worked just fine! :-) Thank you very much, Herbert! let me know if you want to use it more often, than I'll update it together with the tgz version. That would be a good idea. Maybe you

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:59:21PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp clients start in ASCII mode as default, so archives thend to break... This idea has been mentioned rather often, in some personal messages too. I have

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: >Could it be that the problem is due to the fact that I made the download >working with Windows? My box has a winmodem only. So I have no access to Maybe, or your browser. At least Netscape tends to corrupt files. Try using file LyXTips.tgz it

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:55:58PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: > I just would like to say that this is the first archive ever I am not > able to open. I have never had any difficulties working with archives. Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp clients start in

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:04:07PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: > > > Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for > > (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this > > purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Mike Meredith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 02 December 2001 17:55, you wrote: > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data—format violated > tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück > tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler Sounds like something has already decompressed the file

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only > reward he gets for making

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only > reward he gets for making

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Hi all, I will summarise reply to your answers. Thanks to everyone. Am 03.12.01, 09:49:50, schrieb Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > (Finally, remember that Herbert is not a LyX support employee. The only > reward he gets for making

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Herbert Voss
only one remark: if you are able to get it with wget than try wget http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.tgz anyway, there is also a zip version http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip let me know if you want to use it more often, than I'll update it together with the tgz version. Herbert --

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Juergen Fenn
Herbert Voss schrieb: > anyway, there is also a zip version > > http://www.perce.de/lyx/LyXTips.zip This worked just fine! :-) Thank you very much, Herbert! > let me know if you want to use it more often, > than I'll update it together with the tgz version. That would be a good idea. Maybe

Re: Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:59:21PM +, Juergen Fenn wrote: > > Are you sure all transfers happend in binary mode? Note that some ftp > > clients start in ASCII mode as default, so archives thend to break... > > This idea has been mentioned rather often, in some personal messages too. > I have

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: Hi, none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss' homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the file to LyXTips.tar.gz does not change a thing.

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread ABe
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Hi, none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss‘ homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the file to LyXTips.tar.gz does

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Ronald Florence
ABe writes: So could you please explain how to decompress LyXTips.tgz? just tipe tar -zxvf LyXTips.tgz Could I remind readers that this is LyX list, not a Linux list? The `-z' option that might work in the Gnu tar included with Linux is not a standard Unix tar option and won't work

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 14:51:45, schrieb Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: should be no problem with tar -xvzf LyXTips.tgz Am 02.12.01, 15:31:44, schrieb ABe [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: just tipe tar -zxvf LyXTips.tgz Thanks

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error report: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler I just tried a download and

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 20:06:37, schrieb Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error report: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück tar: Fehler

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 19:43:15, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: | If this is so I think you should change the compressing format to simple | *.zip which can be decompressed with Windows software anyway. After all | LyX is available for Windows

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good performing freeware. 6.11 is the last version of PowerArchiver which is

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: Hi, none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss' homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the file to LyXTips.tar.gz does not change a thing.

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread ABe
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Hi, none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss‘ homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the file to LyXTips.tar.gz does

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Ronald Florence
ABe writes: So could you please explain how to decompress LyXTips.tgz? just tipe tar -zxvf LyXTips.tgz Could I remind readers that this is LyX list, not a Linux list? The `-z' option that might work in the Gnu tar included with Linux is not a standard Unix tar option and won't work

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 14:51:45, schrieb Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: should be no problem with tar -xvzf LyXTips.tgz Am 02.12.01, 15:31:44, schrieb ABe [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: just tipe tar -zxvf LyXTips.tgz Thanks

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error report: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler I just tried a download and

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 20:06:37, schrieb Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error report: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück tar: Fehler

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 19:43:15, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: | If this is so I think you should change the compressing format to simple | *.zip which can be decompressed with Windows software anyway. After all | LyX is available for Windows

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good performing freeware. 6.11 is the last version of PowerArchiver which is

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: > Hi, > > none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss' > homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or > unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the > file to LyXTips.tar.gz does not change a

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread ABe
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: > Hi, > > none of my archivers is able to open LyXTips.tgz from Herbert Voss‘ > homepage. Neither Power Archiver, nor Karchiveur, nor Ark, nor gunzip, or > unzip will do. None of them are able to process *.tgz files. Renaming the > file to LyXTips.tar.gz

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Ronald Florence
ABe writes: > So could you please explain how to decompress LyXTips.tgz? just tipe tar -zxvf LyXTips.tgz Could I remind readers that this is LyX list, not a Linux list? The `-z' option that might work in the Gnu tar included with Linux is not a standard Unix tar option and won't work

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 14:51:45, schrieb Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > should be no problem with > tar -xvzf LyXTips.tgz Am 02.12.01, 15:31:44, schrieb ABe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > just tipe tar -zxv

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Fenn wrote: > > I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error > report: > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > tar: Kindprozeß gab Status 1 zurück > tar: Fehler beim Beenden, verursacht durch vorhergehenden Fehler I just tried a download

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 20:06:37, schrieb Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > > I am running SuSE Linux 7.2. Either input yields the following error > > report: > > > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > >

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Juergen Fenn
Am 02.12.01, 19:43:15, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) zum Thema Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz: > | If this is so I think you should change the compressing format to simple > | *.zip which can be decompressed with Windows software anyway. After all > | LyX is

Re: How to open LyXTips.tgz

2001-12-02 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Juergen Fenn wrote: > Thanks for your hint to winzip, but I do not use shareware for > (de-)compressing data as long as there is freeware available for this > purpose. PowerArchiver 6.10 is rather good performing freeware. 6.11 is the last version of PowerArchiver which is