[OpenAFS] Compressed source code...

Rodney M Dyer rmdyer@uncc.edu
Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:07:22 -0400


At 07:21 PM 7/17/2005, you wrote:
>Sorry, I'm ignorant as usual.  And now that I've fired up my Windows 
>machine, I can't reproduce what R. Dyer's talking about.  I have seen it 
>before, though.  Maybe in Netscape 7.0 or 7.1.

What version of Windows are you running?
What compression tools do you have installed?

I am running only stock Windows XP with WinZIP installed.  I've tried it on 
3 machines at work and mine at home.  With IE it always comes out 
"...tar.tar".  Firefox and Netscape do save it correctly as "...tar.bz2", 
and claim it is a WinZip file, but WinZIP can't open it.  WinZIP 9 says 
"invalid archive".

As to the comment on "better" compression.  We're only saving about 2 meg 
here.  Look at the 1.3.8400 release, where it was in "tar.gz" and 
"tar.bz2".  Is 2 meg really all that important in the scheme of 
things?  It's just a little more than a floppy.  Is someone trying to 
download over 28.8 bps?

Rodney