Matthew Dalton wrote: > > (I've just received Eric Miller's reply, so I'll make some comments on > that as well) > > Eric says: > > 1) tell your user's to Shift-Click the links to download, and/or make > > sure Netscape isn't decompressing the files when it downloads them > > (probable cause). > > I do shift-click, but it doesn't always work. >
I just tried the shift-click, and that made unzip work on my machine. I didn't think this would be necessary on Windows since it comes back and asks whether you want to save or open. Just another proof that Windows is NOT easy to use. > > > 2) check that the files aren't being renamed to xxx_tar.gz . For some > > reason this happens on some windows boxes. They have to be renamed to > > xxx.tar.gz to be useable. > > Tried renaming the file before saving. The file name is correct, but it > is still corrupt. > On my machine I let Windows rename the file to xxx_tar.gz. When I unzip it, it creates another archive and unzips that archive. In the end I end up with two archives and the unzipped directory. Not perfect, but at least my users will be able to get the files. I guess that's what can be expected by an OS like that. > > 3) possibly give your files the *.tgz extension. It should be recognized > > as a compressed tar archive by Winzip (tar czf xxx.tgz mydir). > > Nope, still doesn't work. > Didn't even try that since I was able to finally get the files with the method described above. BTW. How do I create the .tgz rather than the .tar.gz? Do I rename it after creating the archive? Can I do it in "one shot"? It seems there is some script in the Debian distribution, but it doesn't seem to work. Thanks for everyone's help!
