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OK, I plead ignorance. Could someone please sort me out on why the source archive on the download site changes its file extension from ".zip" to ".zip-gz" or ".gz" depending on the browser I use? The first variation occurs using Netscape 7 (Windows) and LYnx 2.8.3 (VMS). The second variation is using MSIE 6. The site, and all the posts I've read in this list, indicate that the archive is a genuine Info-ZIP file, but it's being treated by these browsers as if it's a GZIP archive. Even the BACKUP command has trouble with the unzipped saveset after the download, suggesting trouble with the download.

I downloaded it a couple of times directly onto my VMS machine using LYnx, but the UNZIP procedure seemed to fail, putting no files into [dir.source.vms] directory; the [vms] directory actually wound up at the same level sa the [source] directory?!. That's why I suspect it isn't downloading in the correct format. Either that, or my use of the BACKUP command is woefully wrong. This is what I tried:

$ UNZIP "-V" SAMBA-2_2_4-SRC.ZIP-GZ
$ CREATE/DIRECTORY [.SAMBA-2_2_4]
$ BACKUP SAMBA-2_2_4-SRC.BCK/SAVE_SET [.SAMBA-2_2_4]

I'd sure appreciate some help sorting this out. Thanks.

Alder

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