Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:08:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@alameda.net> To: matt@cgibuilder.com (Matt Wimer) Cc: stefan@promo.de, matt@cgibuilder.com, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <199709290008.RAA15845@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <199709281625.QAA16098@thunder.cgibuilder.com> from Matt Wimer at "Sep 28, 97 04:25:37 pm"
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> Stefan Bethke writes: > > At 4:38 Uhr +0200 28.09.1997, Matt Wimer wrote: > > >The gifmerge.tar.gz under ports/graphics is not actually a .gz even > > >though it is named as one. > > >just making sure you know. > > > > > >here is the url to the refering page: > > >http://www.freebsd.org/ports/graphics.html > > > > > >and here is the url to the offending file: > > >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/graphics/gifmerge.tar.g > > >z > > > > What else then? If you look closely on the server, you'll find that there's > > only a directory 'gifmerge'. However, wu-ftpd is smart enought to tar and > > gzip the directory contents if you request 'gifmerge.tar.gz'. > > > > If tar/gzip moan about a broken file, make sure you download it as binary. > > The download worked, but the file was in tar format but not gz > fromat. I might have been high, but i didn't need tar zxf the file, just tar > xf. No big deal. > > > Hope this helps, > > Stefan > Then your web brower directly unpacked that and still saved it with .tgz or .tar.gz extension. I have seen that with Communicator myself. Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073
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