RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive

[Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 5:11 PM
> To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc); cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
> 
> 
> --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
> > At 10:49 AM 12/20/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >--- Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.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.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand this reaction.  To be honest, I 
> think simple 
> > permutation in form that addresses the inevitable queries 
> to the list 
> > regarding the problem of name-mangling by browsers a "good 
> thing"(tm) (of 
> > course one could argue that the browsers need to be 
> fixed!;-)).  This idea 
> > seems to be focused toward that goal.  Logistics of making 
> this change aside,
> > 
> > is there a reason this would NOT be a good idea?  Just curious...
> > 
> 
> Yes, the browsers should be fixed and the most recent version 
> of Netscape
> Communicator doesn't mangle the names any more.  There are 
> other reasons
> besides name mangling, such as, file content mangling that 
> alwo happens.  If
> the browser doesn't understand the extention then it 
> downloads in text mode. 
> So, it's not worth changing the name.

Are you sure of that ? I was thinking that unrecognized files were always
transfered as binary data and BTW, I'm not sure that IE5 has any knowledge
of a '.gz' suffix :-)

Note that as windows FTP client are concerned they effectively try to use
the suffix to choose between binary and text format while UNIX clients
ususally ALWAYS use text format unless explicitely directed to binary mode
:-)

Regards,

	Bernard

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