Re: Emacs 22.2.91 pretest

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Drew Adams wrote:
> Also, FWIW, I tried downloading emacs-22.2.91.tar.gz from the parent dir by
> clicking its link (in IE 6), but WinZip complained after downloading ("Error
> reading header after processing 0 entries), and I ended up with an empty 
> archive
> (nothing to extract). I had to instead right-click the link, choose Save 
> Target
> As, change the default name from *.tar.tar (?) to *.tar.gz, save, and then 
> open
> the saved *.tar.gz archive - that works. Dunno if this is a WinZip problem or
> something else, but other Windows users might run into the same issue.


Yes, on windows zip files are better than *.tar.gz files. However if you
need to handle *.tar.gz files then 7-zip is much better than WinZip (or
at least WinZip was not good at this, I have not been using it for a
very long time now).