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From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@alameda.net>
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In-Reply-To: <199709281625.QAA16098@thunder.cgibuilder.com> from Matt Wimer at "Sep 28, 97 04:25:37 pm"
To: matt@cgibuilder.com (Matt Wimer)
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:08:08 -0700 (PDT)
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> Stefan Bethke writes:
>  > At 4:38 Uhr +0200 28.09.1997, Matt Wimer wrote:
>  > >The gifmerge.tar.gz under ports/graphics is not actually a .gz even
>  > >though it is named as one.
>  > >just making sure you know.
>  > >
>  > >here is the url to the refering page:
>  > >http://www.freebsd.org/ports/graphics.html
>  > >
>  > >and here is the url to the offending file:
>  > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/graphics/gifmerge.tar.g
>  > >z
>  > 
>  > What else then? If you look closely on the server, you'll find that there's
>  > only a directory 'gifmerge'. However, wu-ftpd is smart enought to tar and
>  > gzip the directory contents if you request 'gifmerge.tar.gz'.
>  > 
>  > If tar/gzip moan about a broken file, make sure you download it as binary.
> 
> The download worked, but the file was in tar format but not gz
> fromat.  I might have been high, but i didn't need tar zxf the file, just tar 
> xf.  No big deal.
> 
>  > Hope this helps,
>  > Stefan
> 

Then your web brower directly unpacked that and still saved it with .tgz or
.tar.gz extension. I have seen that with Communicator myself.


Ulf.

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