From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Andreas Eibach" <a.eibach@gmx.net>
To: "Vladimir G Ivanovic" <vladimir@acm.org>
Cc: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:39:00 -0000
Message-id: <013d01c06b9e$dc239c60$eb0b07d5@default>
X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg01030.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir G Ivanovic" <vladimir@acm.org>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: <klaus.berndl@sdm.de>; <merlin_electronic@t-online.de>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive

> I use Netscape almost exclusively to download files, without problems.
> Sometimes Netscape will automagically decompress the file, but not
> rename it. So all applications that key off of the file name extension
> will be confused. It's a simple matter to rename the file to end in
> ".tar".

Ah, you MUST be NT users. :)
IIRC, this is a NT-only problem. I never had this behaviour with a Win9x
machine, honestly, *never*.
However, my machine at work is a NT 4 SP 5 (?) one, so I always get   ...
_tar.tar  files instead of tar.gz. This is *very annoying*.. :-/
I do NOT have W2k yet, so I dunno if this is fixed in W2k. I hope it is, but
I bet it's not.

Andreas


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