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 '-'):

<package>-<version>-<port-level>.tar.gz 
	becomes <package>-`echo <release> | tr '.' '_'>-<port-level>.tgz

<package>-<version>-<port-level>.src.tar.gz 
	becomes <package>-`echo <release> | tr '.' '_'>-<port-level>-src.tgz

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).

Just a thought

	Bernard 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [ mailto:gerrit.haase@t-online.de ]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:26 PM
> To: Corinna Vinschen
> Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
> 
> 
> <20 Dec 2000, 12:35 Uhr wars, als Schaible, Joerg folgendes schrub:>
> < AW: AW: AW: documentation archive >
> 
> I even got problems with pure ftp:-)
> 
> > This would solve A LOT OF problems <vbg>
> > 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Corinna Vinschen [ mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com ]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2000 12:05
> > An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: documentation archive
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday 20 December 2000 11:54, Schaible, Joerg wrote:
> > > 1.5) Don't use IE for download your files, it has the 
> same behaviour!
> > >
> > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> > > Von: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
> > > 1) Don't use Netscape to download your files.
> > > 2) Don't use Winzip to explore a cygwin archive file.
> > > 3) The name of the file should be cygwin-docs.tar.gz
> > 
> > If all the favorite software is behaving so bad, we should 
> suggest not
> > using a computer for download at all :-)
> > 
> > Corinna
> > 
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