On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > Hi, All > > > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > Simple answer: Don't use Netscape to download .gz files, use > wget instead
ok > Other answer: Try shift-mousebutton umm... are you sure? trying to dl ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/text/less_346-6.diff.gz and ALWAYS ending up with less_346-6.diff > > Regards, > > Joey > well, messing with this stuff discovered very strange thing: d/l less_346-6.diff, more then 30k uncompressed, then tried to restore archive and gzip -9 (is it REALLY best compression?) gives me file size 10847 while in .dsc the compressed file size is equal to 10831 ! and i tested such effect with several .diff files. any ideas? thank you OK