Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <029f01c06aed$9b3466f0$945d4fcb@workhorse> From: "Robert Collins" To: References: <200012201918 DOT LAA29435 AT prosper DOT leonora DOT org> <00122020370103 DOT 08590 AT cygbert> <20001220144007 DOT F21461 AT redhat DOT com> <017501c06aeb$0efc04b0$945d4fcb AT workhorse> <20001220202859 DOT A26567 AT redhat DOT com> Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:30:26 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Dec 2000 01:33:09.0155 (UTC) FILETIME=[F977DF30:01C06AED] further to this, I have seen the following issues with browsers downloading tar.gz files: * Sometimes they come down in text mode. Urggh. I don't know why and have never seen it replicated. * In IE if you download a .tar.gz file as anything other than "all files" in the save as dialog, IE ungzip's it. This is due AFAICT to a broken Content-Encoding implementation. * occasionally name mangling can occur. The only one that I know happens, and happens frequently is the IE save as. As IE doesn't understand bzip2 (AFAIK) using bzip2 may also make browser downloads more robust.... Unfortunately I cannot volunteer to tackle the setup changes :[ Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" To: Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:28 PM Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:12:13PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote: > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Christopher Faylor" > >To: > >Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 AM > >Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive > > > > > > > >> >That's it and these are the reasons for suggesting not to use WinZip > >> >for unpacking. Especially newbies will not be able to figure what's > >> >gone wrong. > >> > >> I wonder if we can add a bit to our version of tar to make it produce > >> files that are unextractable using winzip. > >> > >> cgf > >> > >I don't believe winzip understands bzip2. > >.tar.bz2 might work > > Hey, good idea! I've been wanting to adapt setup.exe to use bz2 files. > This is YA reason for doing this. > > cgf > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple