On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:12:13PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 AM
>Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
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>> >That's it and these are the reasons for suggesting not to use WinZip
>> >for unpacking. Especially newbies will not be able to figure what's
>> >gone wrong.
>>
>> I wonder if we can add a bit to our version of tar to make it produce
>> files that are unextractable using winzip.
>>
>> cgf
>>
>I don't believe winzip understands bzip2.
>.tar.bz2 might work
Hey, good idea! I've been wanting to adapt setup.exe to use bz2 files.
This is YA reason for doing this.
cgf
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