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Re: Downloading GCC
- To: "ron m" <ckr at globalserve dot net>
- Subject: Re: Downloading GCC
- From: Dean Wilson <mine at speedbros dot com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:23:14 -0500
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <000901bef3f4$c6e63ce0$538b5ad1@smurf>
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, you wrote:
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> For some reason the downloads I've gotten from your site at ftp.gnu.org, (for exapmle the GCC 2.95.1, gzip under Chill distr), have not gunzipped properly. Whenever I go to expand the files I'm told that there is only 1 file to expand and am prompted to give a file extension to it.
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> I'm using Winzip 7.0 and have gunzipped things properly in the past. Please tell me whether this problem is just me, and if so (if you know) how to correct this. Thanks.
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the problem is windows doesnt understand more than one . in a file name tell it
the extension is tar and then it will want to decompress the tar ball, hope
this helps
Dean