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Re: Problems with .tar file



On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:16:49PM -0330, Greg Starkes wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:
> 
> > I think it should be qt-1_42.tar (or qt-1.42.tar), not qt-1_42_tar.tar.  Try
> > renaming it                 ^            ^  ^              ^  ^^^^
> > 
> > If this doesn't work, may be it's a .tar.gz, rename it to qt-1.42.tar.gz, and
> > try:
> 
> Was this downloaded on a  windows platform? I have seen *.tar.gz get
> renamed to *_tar.tar quite a bit. Rename the file as mentionned above.

Netscape 4.0 and 4.5 always do it to me here. It changes all dots
except the last to underscores, then somehow makes .tar.gz _tar.tar. Argh.


Hamish
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