>> I would suggest to stay pragmatic: As long, as there are no complains >> about offering only bz2-format keep it. If people have trouble the >> switch to tar.gz should be done very easy. >> With the tools from redhat you just open a coomand prompt and type >> bzip (or whatever the file is named) -d php_manual_*.bz2 to get the >> tar people should be able to handle. To avoid probs I can write a very >> small tut to put in place how to handle bz2 on win with the tools from >> redhat.....
> It would be nice to put something like this into the FAQ. Here my quick hack. Annotations welcome! Suggestions for the right place in the faq? Friedhelm Howto handle the bz2 compressed Manuals: If you don't have an archiver-tool to handle bz2 files download the commandline tool form Redhat. For Win2k sp2 grab version 1.02 from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v102/bzip2-102-x86-win32.exe All other Windows user should grab Version 1.00 from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/v100/bzip2-100-x86-win32.exe Download the file and rename the executable to bzip2.exe. For convenience put it into a directory in your path, e.g. x:\windows where x represents your windows installation drive. To uncompress the php_manual_x.bz2 follow these simple instructions: 1. open a command prompt window 2. cd to the folder where you stored the downloaded php_manual_x.bz2. 3. Invoking bzip2 -d php_manual_*.bz will extract php_manual_x in the same folder Thats it. In case you downloaded the *.tar.bz2 many html-files the procedure is the same. The only difference is that you got a file php_manual_*.tar. The tar format is known to be treated with most common Archivers on Windows like e.g. Winzip.
