From owner-freebsd-www Sun Sep 28 17:11:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA02642 for www-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thunder.cgibuilder.com (thunder.cgibuilder.com [207.141.26.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA02635 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from matt@localhost) by thunder.cgibuilder.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16165; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:13:22 GMT Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:13:22 GMT Message-Id: <199709281713.RAA16165@thunder.cgibuilder.com> From: Matt Wimer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: matt@cgibuilder.com (Matt Wimer), stefan@promo.de, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In-Reply-To: <199709290008.RAA15845@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> References: <199709281625.QAA16098@thunder.cgibuilder.com> <199709290008.RAA15845@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.31 under 20.2 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ulf Zimmermann writes: > > 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. > Kind of looks that way. These programs never do what you tell them. matt > > Ulf. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 > Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073