From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-04-09T20:40:28-07:00
Subject: Un-gzip'd gzip files (Was: Re: ANN: ri v1.8)


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Dave Thomas (dave@pragprog.com) wrote:

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> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Michael Campbell wrote:
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> >I can't get the .tgz to expand on a windows box.  I d/l it twice
> >thinking it might be a corruption problem.  I tried both winzip and
> >cygwin's zcat and compress; they all griped it was not a valid
> >archive.  (Yes, I'm unix-savvy.)
> >
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> Try just untaring it (without the 'z'). I looks like something=20
> (Sourceforge, perhaps) is uncompressing the file in transit in some=20
> circumstances.  If anyone knows what's causing this please let me know.

Mozilla used to have this nasty habit, so did some versions of NS4.x...

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