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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:49:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>,
        "'gerrit DOT haase AT t-online DOT de'" <gerrit DOT haase AT t-online DOT de>,
        Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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--- Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com> wrote:
> Why not switch to the quite common ".tgz" suffix instead of .tar.gz" and
> replace dots in release numbers by underscores? this could be done almost
> unambiguously (at least as long as package names do not contain '-'):
> 

Yuck!!  Not worth it.

> 
> Thus all favorite download tools will be happy with th efiles to download
> (and we even can look at the content of it with winzip... I know there is
> problems with using winzip to install, although I don't know which ones, but
> looking at the archive content should be OK).
> 

`tar -ztf foo.tar.gz | less' will list the contents of the archive and allow
you to page back and forth.  What more could you ask for?

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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