OpenEuphoria

euphor22.tar

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET> Aug 30, 1999
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A few people have reported that when they
try to open euphor22.tar using WinZip they get an
error message "error processing header after reading 0 entries".
This is because it's a *compressed* tar file, not a plain tar
file. If you rename euphor22.tar as euphor22.tgz and then
try WinZip on it, it should work. The tar command will also
fail on Linux unless you type:
     tar -xvz -f euphor22.tar
The 'z' says it's a compressed tar file.

The instructions on the download page tell you to do this,
but I guess people tend to ignore the instructions and rely
on the file type.

Previously I tried naming the file with .tgz file type, and
that's fine, except that some versions of Netscape
think that .tgz is a "text" file, and so the line terminators are
changed, and the file will always be corrupted when it's
downloaded.

I could use the .tar.gz extension that seems
to be the standard in the Linux world, but I find the
file name gets mangled when downloading to DOS/Windows,
for instance Internet Explorer changes "euphor22.tar.gz"
into "euphor22_tar.tar", so you still end up with a .tar file
after downloading, plus the name is wrong.

For the time being, I'll just add a warning to the download page.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://www.RapidEuphoria.com