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From: VEGA <vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu>
To: "N. R.R." <robalama@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: netscape ftp problem
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its still gzipped, even though the extension is missing. netscape is kinda
dumb about that, so tar vxz navigator-v45-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar
should get it unpacked correctly.

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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, N. R.R. wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Heres the deal.
> 
> I went to netscape via ftp and found the unsupported netscape 4.5 
> version
> and downloaded it.
> 
> The full name of the file was:
> 
> navigator-v45-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz
> 
> and it downloaded the whole thing successfully.  However, when I went to
> uncompress it, the file was named:
> 
> navigator-v45-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar
> 
> missing the ".gz" ending.  So, the problem is, how to I go about
> uncompressing the file and setting it up in X-Windows?
> 
> Do I have to re-download it?  Everything seemed normal with the ftp
> transfer, all the way down to the names and numbers, but on my system 
> that
> is what happened.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Neill rr4
> 


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