On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Michael Petch <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, > > This is interesting. I have confirmed that the issue is not a matter of CRLF > processing. What IS occurring with Firefox is that when the files are > downloaded from www.gnubg.org/media/sources they appear to be compressed a > second time, and the doubly compressed file is stored by Firefox. > > Here is the firefox HTTP request/response:
[snap] > So I decided to gunzip the firefox tarball, rename the .tar file to .tar.gz > and then ask gunzip to tell me the contents. this is what I see: > > (rename the file from tar to tar.gz) > mv gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz > (ask gunzip to tell me what is in the file) > gunzip -l gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar > compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name > 14199163 23439360 39.4% > gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar [snap] > What tar can't do is double decompress the file by itself. > > Mike > For Windows users: Winrar fails to de-decompress, but 7Zip (Open Source Freeware for Windows) does the job. (not a solution, just a patch on a wooden leg to work with present tarballs) N. _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
