Re: [Sheflug] Aha!

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

That'll be it then. I use Mozilla 0.81 (verry niiice!) so it will no doubt
support funky features like this.

Just wish it would remove the .gz extension to stop confusing me!

Craig

On Sun, 27 May 2001, Matthew Collins wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:58:08PM +0100, Craig Andrews wrote:
> > Right. I have discovered it's dastardly secret. The .tar.gz file was not,
> > in fact, gzipped, but was a plain tar.
> >
> Actually, I bet your browser unziped it on the way down. Some web sites
> use gzip compression transparently to transmit stuff. I've had occasions
> were I've downloaded a tag.gz file, only to find by the time it gets to
> me it's just a tar file (still with the gz extension). My browser unziped
> it for me.
>
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