When you send an attachment to Bugzilla, it gives that attachment a
completely meaningless ,cgi filename. Please use the comments field to tell
us what to rename the file back to before using it. In particular, if it's
a .tar.gz file or other kind of archive other than a Windows-style zipfile,
please be explicit about that.
BTW, for anyone who isn't familariar with those: to unpack them on
Windows, use
ren whatever.cgi whatever.tar.gz (gunzip insists on seeing a
.gz extension)
gunzip whatever.tar.gz (produces whatever.tar)
tar -xvf whatever.tar (produces however many files)
gzip/gunzip is widely available as a free download. I presume there's a
free implementation of tar somewhere, but I don't know where; I've been
using one of the commercial ports of that tool.
While I'm writing: Attachments/inclusions that demonstrate a problem --
preferably the smallest set of small files you can come up with that will
still provoke the breakage -- are *TREMENDOUSLY* helpful in bug reports.
Being able to actually watch the malfunction happen in a debugger makes
finding and fixing problems much easier. I know, sometimes it's extremely
difficult to reduce a huge testcase down to the key features that show the
bug, and sometimes you really do need a large file to provoke a problem...
but anything you can do to help us focus in on the specific cause of the
glitch will speed up our response to it, so it's in everyone's interest to
make the bug reports as specific and self-demonstrating as possible.
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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
