Re: Html 40 gzipped?? pdf

Hi Jean-Marc,

I think your browser is unzipping it on the fly,
and not renaming the file without the suffix ".gz". This is
a known bug.

 _ Ian

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 08:55, Jean-Marc Lachaine wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been trying for some time now to get the pdf version of the html 4.01
> spec. It downloads OK but Winzip kept complaining that the file was not a
> proper archive. I finally got around to download a windows copy of gzip and
> attempted to extract the file only to have gzip itself complain that the
> file was not a proper archive. That is when I decided to try a little
> experiment and remove the .gz extension from the downloaded file. Double
> click and presto, Acrobat opens the file right up without a hitch!!! Sorry
> guys but that file is just not compressed. You might want to lose the false
> extension.
> 
> JML
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Received on Tuesday, 6 May 2003 09:21:31 UTC