gzip'd files

Bill Cunningham billcu2 at verizon.net
Mon Nov 20 14:23:43 PST 2006


> How are you downloading the files?  It may be a problem with the
> application you're using (I have experienced this type of thing in the 
> past), or it could be a server MIME type problem (I suppose).
>
> The files are probably still .tar.gz (you can check with 'file').  Rename 
> them back to .tar.gz and they should work as expected.
>
> j.

    File says unrecognized. I just click on the link and .tar.tar comes up. 
I'm using win XP I use it for my networking and linux for everything else 
like development. I had all the protos and libs I needed before and I didn't 
have this problem. I don't know what to do.

Bill




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