From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: Bernard Dautrevaux , "'gerrit.haase@t-online.de'" , Corinna Vinschen Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:49:00 -0000 Message-id: <20001220154912.18117.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg00937.html --- Bernard Dautrevaux 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, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- < http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com > --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows < http://gw32.freeyellow.com/ > --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows < http://www.mingw.org/ > --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple