About the confusing aspect of your documents

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Fri Dec 28 13:26:00 GMT 2001


Khoa Do <kdo@stratacare.com> writes:

> 	I just have one comment on the the documents found on
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/.  The documents that you have listed in
> Postscript format came with a .ps.gz extension.  As a result, I thought it
> was zipped and tried to unzip it using Winzip only to get nothing.  I
> finally got a clue and renamed it to .ps only and it came up fine.  I know I
> didn't have to rename it but on the Windows machine, but it shows up with a
> extracting archive icon on it.  Thanks for all the work!

The documents _are_ actually gzipped when they are sent from
gcc.gnu.org.  Probably your browser is uncompressing them without
changing the extension.  I see this happen with Netscape a lot.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>



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