From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com>,
"'gerrit.haase@t-online.de'" <gerrit.haase@t-online.de>,
Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001220154912.18117.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> (raw)
--- 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.
>
> 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).
>
`tar -ztf foo.tar.gz | less' will list the contents of the archive and allow
you to page back and forth. What more could you ask for?
Cheers,
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next reply other threads:[~2000-12-20 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-20 7:49 Earnie Boyd [this message]
2000-12-20 8:02 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
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2000-12-21 6:20 Bernard Dautrevaux
2000-12-21 8:43 ` Robert Collins
2000-12-21 6:14 Bernard Dautrevaux
2000-12-20 8:11 Earnie Boyd
2000-12-20 5:31 Bernard Dautrevaux
2000-12-20 13:42 ` Jari Aalto+list.cygwin
2000-12-20 3:36 Schaible, Joerg
2000-12-20 4:24 ` Gerrit P. Haase
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