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[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Friday, July 15, 2005 02:25:13 AM -0400 Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> 
wrote:

> Various wrote:
>
> ...
>> > And, why is it that when I right-click to download the source
>> > distribution "openafs-1.3.85-src.tar.bz2" the dialog saves the file as
>> > "openafs-1.3.85-src.tar.tar" ???
>>
>> I don't know.  Perhaps your browser is trying to "protect" you by making
>> sure a file whose content-type is application/x-tar always has an
>> extension  of ".tar".  It works fine for me.
>
> My browser "helpfully" runs .tar.gz files through gunzip.  I suppose I
> should be happy it doesn't untar and try to build things as well.  Even
> so, since I usually want to save the unaltered original, I wind up using
> something else, usually "wget", to fetch the file.

Hm; I thought you could usually turn that off.
Anyway, I suspected that might be the problem, but then why the .tar.tar ?

-- Jeff