I should have remembered this as it did happen to me about a year ago as well.
XCSoar does not need to make up for windoze operators but the comment near the
link (or atleast in the manual where I went seeking information) sounds like
the quick fix and would have set me straight. It just seemed appropriate that
the download might be a .zip file, and my first failed attempt at
renaming(windoze hiding the extension) convinced me I was on the wrong track.
All happy now, 6.4 looks great. Unfortunately the southern hemisphere is not
conducive to too much test flying at the moment.
Thanks all
Scott
From: Tobias Bieniek
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 7:14 PM
To: Ramy Yanetz
Cc: xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net ; Max Kellermann ; Scott Lennon
Subject: Re: [Xcsoar-user] XCSoar 6.4 maps
Patch please. Changing the website is rather trivial but since I'm at a
competition right now I dont have much time currently.
Turbo
Am 09.08.2012 10:39 schrieb "Ramy Yanetz" <ryan...@yahoo.com>:
This issue is keep creeping up and who knows how many users got stuck as a
result or unzipped the files into the xcsoardata directory with some strange
results.
I thought this was already corrected, but if there is truly no way to fix
that, at least we should have a comment near the link clarifying to save it as
xcm. You may be surprised, but Internet explorer is still quiet popular ;)
Ramy
On Aug 9, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote:
> On 2012/08/09 00:19, Scott Lennon <sco...@internode.on.net> wrote:
>> How do I take the step from downloading maps files, which save as .zip
files
>> off the download page, to getting a .xcm file for my PDA. Extracting a .zip
>> gives lots of files but no .xcm
>
> The map files are called "*.XCM". If your browser renames them to
> "*.ZIP", then it's your browser's fault, it tries to outsmart you.
> Either switch to another browser that treats you better, or rename
> them back to *.XCM.
>
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