From: Thomas L. <ta...@ec...> - 2002-10-19 16:45:21
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:37:25AM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:35, Thomas Leonard wrote: > > OK. Looks like the flush was in the wrong place (it would even flush > > files only open for reading, which seems to work on Linux but I guess BSD > > is more fussy). > > > > What happens if you try to create a '.tar' rather than a '.tgz'? > > Uhm, I dont have that option in Archive. Only "Compress as gz" and > "Compress as bz2". Both works though. You have to drag a directory onto it... > Extract works with .tar...sort of. Tar complains that it "Cannot > identify format. Searching..." but it does work. Still no luck with > tar.gz, tgz, gz or tar.bz2. > Extract works flawlessly with zip and bz2 files. > Very odd. What about .tar.bz2 files? Zip (and .deb and .jar) are unusual in that they need a filename to work (the others read from a pipe). However, compressing and extracting files (.gz and .bz2) work with pipes too... -- Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net ta...@ec... ta...@us... GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1 |