Re: [Bug-gnubg] Downloads from gnubg.org appear to be compressed twice

[motiv4u]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Michael Petch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Okay,
>
> This is interesting. I have confirmed that the issue is not a matter of CRLF
> processing. What IS occurring with Firefox is that when the files are
> downloaded from www.gnubg.org/media/sources they appear to be compressed a
> second time, and the doubly compressed file is stored by Firefox.
>
> Here is the firefox HTTP request/response:

[snap]

> So I decided to gunzip the firefox tarball, rename the .tar file to .tar.gz
> and then ask gunzip to tell me the contents. this is what I see:
>
> (rename the file from tar to tar.gz)
> mv gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz
> (ask gunzip to tell me what is in the file)
> gunzip -l gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar
>         compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
>           14199163            23439360  39.4%
> gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar

[snap]

> What tar can't do is double decompress the file by itself.
>
> Mike
>
For Windows users: Winrar fails to de-decompress,
but 7Zip (Open Source Freeware for Windows) does the job.
(not a solution, just a patch on a wooden leg to work with present tarballs)

N.