Re: [Freeglut-developer] Re: Freeglut-developer digest, Vol 1 #529 - 2 msgs

[Richard R. <sf...@ol...>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 04:58:52PM +0200, gerard stephane wrote:
> QUESTION FROM STEF MILES
> I tried to download the freeglut package
> but i cannot unzip the tar format.
> what must i do?
> THANKS.

Are you using WinZip?  If so, is it a very old version?

Is the file a .tar.gz or a .tgz file?  (I forget and do not
have the web-page in front of me.)  ".tar.gz" and ".tgz"
are equivalent, but the ".tar.gz" names were too long for
old MS-DOS systems (and early MS-WINDOWS), so it was common
to rename .tar.gz files to .tgz for their sake.

The longer version, .tar.gz, inciates a two-layer process:
The files are first collected (.tar) then compressed (.gz).


If switching the filename suffix between .tar.gz and .tgz
does not help, and if installing the latest WinZip doesn't
help, you might try to set up a CVS client to get the
freeglut sources directly via CVS.  (What do other WIN32 people
do to access the gzipped tar archives?)


I can't help a whole lot more, since I don't use WIN32 much.
I actually fetch the sources with a UNIX-like machine.  (^&

If no one else answers today, then perhaps tomorrow, more help
will come.  I think that most developers are more active during
the week.


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