[Zope] - ODBC troubles

Andre Posumentov andre@babbage.co.uk
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 02:43:07 -0000


> Michael wrote:
> > The contributed files on the Zope site are all named *_tar.gz , so
> > Winzip doesn't understand that it is a .tar inside of a .gz
>
> Slightly incorrect...WinZip can't handle a filename with
> more than one
> "." in it, so it mangles all but the last one.  All you
> have to do is
> replace, in the prompt, the "_tar" with ".tar" and it
> continues on just
> fine.

Alternatively, you could just change the suffix of any
downloaded files from '_tar.gz' to '.tgz', then Winzip
will open them without complaint.

cheers,
-- andre
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Andre Posumentov
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