- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:56:51 -0400 (EDT)
- To: John Russell <VE3LL@RAC.CA>
- cc: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr, www-amaya@w3.org
There is a second step required here. the .gz extension refers to the fact that a file (amaya-src-2_1_tar) has been compressed using the gzip algorithm, which Winzip understands. in fact that file itself is an archive format (a "tar file" or "tarball" in common unix parlance) which has been generateed in a similar manner to a winzip collection of files. I believe that Winzip will allow you to extract the files from the tarball in a seperate step (in Unix systems it is a one step process), in much the way you have described below. Charles McCN On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, John Russell wrote: whien i use winzip 7.0 to try to unzip sources i get a message saying "please enter the full name of file within amaya-src-2_1_tar.gz and it defaults to amaya-src-2_1_tar. trying the default unzips into a 22 meg block but doesnt break it down any further and i am in the blind as to what other step to follow or what name to have given at the name it stage ... it seems that this is quite awkward compared to .zip programs which simply prompt for a directory (with appropriate one like program files\amaya\src as a default and then just unpackages each little file where it should go if someone has done it with tar.gz format successfully to a windows 95 system then perhaps they can offer notes up on the download site .... john russell VE3LL@RAC.CA homepage: http://web.cgocable.net/~jrussel --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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