Quoth James Greenhalgh on Thu, May 11, 2000:
> It's stripped the second . extension from the filename when downloaded to your
> PC. Simply don't use winzip and ftp across exim-3.13_tar.tar to the server,
> then mv it to exim-3.13.tar.gz at the other end.
How true. PC software often does weird things to filenames. Why
didn't you just download the tarball to your UNIX machine (which
you obviously have, if you're trying to install Exim)?
And, BTW, did you download the file in binary transfer mode (as
opposed to "text")? On command line FTP clients, it's achieved
by the command "bin".
> Whatever you do, don't use winzip on it
Righto. Don't trust Windows software.
> - since that produces pkzip archives that gzip/uncompress don't understand...
> (Try looking up zip on www.freshmeat.net for links to unix pkzip/unzip
> compatable utils)
InfoZIP is PKZIP-compatible. Very nice. Still, don't use winzip
on the file.
Vadik.
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