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From: Toby Hutton <thutton@cybec.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Site restructuring suggestions.
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:25:53 +1100
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JohnT wrote:
> 
> 2. The provide the demos in .ZIP files or just .TAR not this .TAR.GZ crap
> you have now. We have to unpack them twice! Also, my browser always says it
> can't open the .TAR.GZ files for download!! However, I have found it
> actually does download them into the cache before bringing up the error
> message so I have to copy the files out of the cache. (BTW I use IE4)

Yeah, zip files seem to be the de-facto standard on the 'net these days,
and should be the only archive type on the server...

Tar'd files aren't compressed, they're just a bunch of files all stuck
together into one file.  Therefore it is a good idea to compress them
with gzip.  If you have tar and gzip on your system you can extract
files from them using tar and the 'z' option, all in one go - not
twice.  
eg. tar xzvf file.tar.gz

I don't (won't) use IE4 but I imagine you should be able to right-click
on the .tar.gz file and tell your browser to download the file,
regardless of its file type.  You shouldn't have to copy things out of
your cache.

Toby.