Re: WINZIP Version

• To: Marcia Perry <mperry@george.lbl.gov>
• Subject: Re: WINZIP Version
• From: "Paul B. Huang" <pbhuang@bmrc.berkeley.edu>
• Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:40:50 -0700 (PDT)
• cc: KiNgYbOi@aol.com, openmash-developers@gumby.cs.berkeley.edu
• In-Reply-To: <200004242125.OAA13380@george.lbl.gov>

Hi Marcia,

Yes, be default, windows will want to have one dot (.) in the file name
before the extension.  So it will convert the dot before tar to an
underscore (_).  The way to fix it manually is just change the file name
after you download the file or change it when you're saving the file.

--Paul

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Marcia Perry wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> When you download the *.gz file, did the filename get
> changed to something like <file>-tar.tar or something
> like that?  I don't know if it's Windows or Netscape
> (under Windoze) that changes the file name from *.tar.gz,
> but manually change the filename to <file>.tar.gz and
> then use WinZip.  Make sure you're using the latest WinZip,
> which does deal with UNIX-style tar/gz files.
> 
> --Marcia
> 

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