Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.
Jens,
As far as I remember, this is the problem: when you download any
tar.gz file in Windows, it will be automatically renamed whatever_tar.gz
due to the DOS/Windows limitations when it comes to filenames (remember: 8
characters name, 3 characters for the extension, and only one extension).
All they need to do is to rename the file to whatever.tar.gz before
running Winzip on it. That works fine for me.
Nitebirdz
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> I know this is a little off subject, but I think it's a problem may
> people are running into.
>
> I have a ftp server with lot's of files on it. I usually use .tar.gz for
> large archives rather than .zip because not all my UNIX users has unzip
> installed. Winzip supposedly supports tar and gz also.
>
> I recently found that when my Windows users download the .tar.gz
> archives using Netscape and try to unzip them using Winzip, they get an
> error message and they don't get anywhere.
>
> I would like to understand what is going on, and how I can fix the
> problem. If anyone had the same problem and found a good solution
> (meaning NOT having to use .zip rather than .tar.gz, and NOT having to
> use that terrible "OS" called Windows), please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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